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If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a s

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a small cause, it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous. – Jeremy Taylor

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A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament. – Jeremy Taylor

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Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is lifes just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff. – Kevin Rudd

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