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It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

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Where ambition ends happiness begins.

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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

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He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it.

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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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