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Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:
Those who are free from anger are free from death.
(Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.), Tamil sage, poet. repr. Calcutta, Y.M.C.A. Publishing House (1958). The Sacred Kural, translated from the Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar by H.A. Popley, vs. XXXI.10 (1931).
Legends say that the author was either a Jain monk or a Hindu outcaste priest.)
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Anger kills both laughter and joy;
What greater foe is there than anger?
(Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.), Tamil sage, poet. repr. Calcutta, Y.M.C.A. Publishing House (1958). The Sacred Kural, translated from the Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar by H.A. Popley, vs. XXXI.4 (1931).
Legends say that the author was either a Jain monk or a Hindu outcaste priest.)
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Anger is a brief lunacy.
(Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8 B.C.), Roman poet. Epistles, bk. 1, epistle 2 (22-8 B.C.).)
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Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).)
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There had been years of Passion—scorching, cold,
And much Despair, and Anger heaving high,
(Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. And There Was a Great Calm (l. 1-2). . .
The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy. James Gibson, ed. (1978) Macmillan.)
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Not from this anger, anticlimax after
Refusal struck her loin and the lame flower
Bent like a beast to lap the singular floods....
(Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "Not from this anger.")
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Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Volumnia, in Coriolanus, act 4, sc. 2, l. 50-1.
Refusing an invitation to supper after Coriolanus's banishment.)
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
(Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Phaon, in Sappho, act 5, sc. 4 (1819).)
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