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Francis Bacon on Anger

1561–1626 England

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To seek to extinguish Anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics.

The Essays of Francis Bacon/LVII Of Anger (1597)

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.

The Essays of Francis Bacon/LVII Of Anger (1597)

The Scripture exhorteth us To possess our souls in patience. Whosoever is out of patience, is out of possession of his soul.

The Essays of Francis Bacon/LVII Of Anger (1597)

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware that they carry their anger rather with scorn than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

The Essays of Francis Bacon/LVII Of Anger (1597)

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