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- What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
- Norman Douglas
- What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
- Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.
- Tyron Edwards
- The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
- Author Unknown
- The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
- Author Unknown
- He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
- Bible, Proverbs, XLI, 32
- A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
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