anger quotes
The L is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteousinmercy.He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger forever.He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Bigotry may be roughlydefined astheangerof menwho have no opinions.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
People out of work are not given to talking much about the one thing on their minds.You only sense by indirection, degrees of anger, shades of humiliation and echoes of fear.
Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
She was thinkingfor, since she had been formed by literature, she could think in no other waythat all this had been described in Dickens,Tolstoy, Hugo, Dostoevsky, and a dozen others. All that noble and terrific indignation had done nothing, achieved nothing, the shout of anger from the nineteenth century might as well have been silentfor here came the file of prisoners, handcuffed two by two, and on their faces was that same immemorial look of patient, sardonic understanding.
Behold me then, me for him, life for life I offer, on me let thine anger fall; Account me man; I for his sake will leave Thy bosom, and this glory next to thee Freely put off, and for him lastly die Well pleased, on me let Death wreck all his rage. 582
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles'rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons.
Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.
Anger and tenderness: my selves. And now I can believe they breathe in me as angels, not polarities.
If you strike a child take care that you strike it in anger, evenattheriskof maiming itfor life. A blow incold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
Oh heav'nly fool, thy most kiss-worthy face Anger invests with such a lovely grace That Anger's self I needs must kiss again.
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