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Source: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 16, section 2 (p. 626)
“Anger - use it, but don't lose it!”
Mr. T (1952) American actor and retired professional wrestler
Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool (1984)
“But still anger ought be far from us, for nothing is able to be done rightly nor judiciously with anger.”
Sed tamen ira procul absit, cum qua nihil recte fieri nec considerate potest.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Book I, section 38
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)
Variant: In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.
“Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.”
Chip Heath (1963) American writer
Source: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
Stephen King book Bag of Bones
Source: Bag of Bones
“Anger makes one not only malign but sharp-sighted.”
Stefan Zweig book Beware of Pity
Beware of Pity (1939)
“Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Source: Selected Poems