“The tear rose in Miss Marple's eyes. Succeeding pity, there came anger - anger against a heartless killer. And then, displacing both these emotions, there came a surge of triumph - the triumph some specialist might feel who has successfully reconstructed an extinct animal from a fragment of jawbone and a couple of teeth.”
A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
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John Cassian (360–435) Christian monk and theologian
Book VIII, Chapter V
Institutes of the Coenobia (c. 420 AD)
“My anger is the effervescence of my pity.”
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[Bloy, Léon, Pilgrim of the Absolute, 1947, Pantheon Books, New York, 11, 13, https://books.google.com/books/about/Pilgrim_of_the_Absolute.html?id=vH5cAAAAMAAJ]
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“A Visitation” http://www.schulzian.net/translation/shops/visitation1.htm <br class="br">His father
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Valentinian (1685), Act I, Scene III
Valentinian was Rochester's adaptation of a play (ca. 1610-1614) by John Fletcher
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“Anger kills both laughter and joy;
What greater foe is there than anger?”
Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXXI.4
Tirukkural
“In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect. 23–24, as translated in Dictionary of Quotations (1906) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 370