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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.


Sir Henry Bulwer

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
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EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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GRETCHEN RUBIN Both sadness and anger are the two sides of same coin. Sadness is supressed anger, while anger is ex...
VISHWAS CHAVAN Pain will never lessen without forgiveness, it will only manifest as anger and harden into resentmen...
TIFFANY L. JACKSON I wasted a lot of time being angry, time I can't get back. And now I see you, so angry about what ha...
JONATHAN TROPPER He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the ...
RICHARD YATES The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
BEDE JARRETT The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
BEDE JARRETT Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
ALICE MILLER The world needs more anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
BEDE JARRETT Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
CORETTA SCOTT KING Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one...
TERRY PRATCHETT The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
BEDE JARRETT Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an ex...
THUCYDIDES The more you value a person,the less the anger you exhibit towards that person & the less you value ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Parts of you are phobic of anger and generally terrified and ashamed of angry dissociative parts. Th...
SUZETTE BOON The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. - Th...
BEDE JARRETT A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
JOAN LUNDEN Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.
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AMY GERSTLER Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
CHERIE CARTER-SCOTT Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.
AGNES OBEL Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatre...
HANNAH MORE Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatre...
HANNAH MOORE Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatre...
HANNAH MORE I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.
MACKENZIE PHILLIPS To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves
ALEXANDER POPE Amy! My God! My God! My darling!' and buried my face in her neck, my arms wrapped tight around her, ...
GILLIAN FLYNN He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their cour...
HUGH HOWEY There is nothing worse than having an enemy who is a total loser. It's incredibly frustrating when s...
ASHLY LORENZANA Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for w...
MARCUS ANTONIUS Grudge is like keeping expired foods in your fridge.
JOHN B. BEJO Anger may seem to be a source of energy, but it’s blind.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of f...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of ...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD I think people who had helped me should really get the recognition.
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JONI ANGER They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the po...
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KENNETH ANGER Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.
KENNETH ANGER I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.
KENNETH ANGER The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. B...
KENNETH ANGER I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may b...
KENNETH ANGER I've made several films that haven't been shown.
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KENNETH ANGER Each member had an unmistakable instrumental voice, and every band member had a crucial role.
DAROL ANGER It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Anger turns a man into a beast
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA they wanna bring the rain. I will bring the pain.
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PAMELA MEYER Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
GLORIA STEINEM Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.
MARY KAY BLAKELY The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. -King Henry VIII....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Many people hold onto a grudge because it offers the illusion of power and a perverse feeling of sec...
ROBERT KAREN, PHD It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you’re offended, it is instinctive to want to fight ba...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Fight fire with fire, only adds more negative energy to the situation, making it worse.
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GLENN BECK Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narro...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narro...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourse...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
ISAAC FRIEDMANN Forgiveness is better than revenge.
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WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - n...
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LESLIE FIEDLER Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
PROVERB Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
POPE PAUL VI Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.
AMIT KALANTRI After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first help...
C.S. LEWIS Darkness... When everything that you know and love... is taken from you so harshly... all you can th...
MASASHI KISHIMOTO If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.
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DAVID L. CONROY Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
SCOTT ADAMS Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge
SCOTT ADAMS The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
GREG EVANS The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Anger turned inward is depression. Anger turned sideways is Hawkeye.
SIDNEY FREEDMAN Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. -Unknown.
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JANE GOODALL It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
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EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he may lose it
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Oh, better, no doubt, is a dinner of herbs, When seasoned by love, which no rancor disturbs, And swe...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole h...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few, but...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed Ere it...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Nature's loving proxy, the watching mother
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of t...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Humor is the sunshine of the mind
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON We may live without friends; we may live without books, But civilized men cannot live without cooks
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning i...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge
EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON 'It is destiny' phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The st...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose y...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON