It is the ignorant and childish part of man that is the fighting part.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.
William Shakespeare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
William Penn The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Wearily the sentry moves
Muttering the one word: Peace.
Richard Aldington, from Picket The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
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Keep violence in the mind
Where it belongs.
Brian Aldiss, from Barefoot in the Head The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
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The arrow that has left the bow never returns.
Iranian proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be dethrimental to keep it.
Sean O'Casey, The Plough and the Starts The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
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Neither anger nor fear shall find lodging in your mind.
Dekanawidah A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
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Where there is no antagonist, you cannot quarrel.
Japanese proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
Bishop Berkeley The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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1. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will never be dear to you.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
6. Never repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. Don't let the evils which have never happened cost you pain.
9. Always take things by their smooth handle.
10. When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas Jefferson Bible Illustrator (software from Parsons Technology)
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