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The best answer to answer to anger is silence.

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The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.

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Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

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Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

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Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long-bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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