“Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time.”

—  Francis Bacon , book Essays

Of Anger
Essays (1625)
Context: To seek to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time.

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