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Those hearts that start at once into a blaze , And open all their rage , like summer storms , At once discharg'd , grow cool again , and calm . — Johnson . BYRON seems to have viewed anger with contemptJohnson , with compassion .
Those hearts that start at once into a blaze , And open all their rage , like summer storms , At once discharg'd , grow cool again , and calm . — Johnson . BYRON seems to have viewed anger with contemptJohnson , with compassion .
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I have more than once seen the furniture of a house in a mass of ruin , the work of an angry moment . I have seen anger make wives unhappy , alienate husbands , spoil children , derange all harmony , and disturb the quiet of a whole ...
I have more than once seen the furniture of a house in a mass of ruin , the work of an angry moment . I have seen anger make wives unhappy , alienate husbands , spoil children , derange all harmony , and disturb the quiet of a whole ...
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Let the impenitent sinner turn from his sins at once — no delay , life is uncertain and short . This night thy soul may be required - a notice dreadful and short . Let authors be clear , concise , pointed , comprehensive , independent ...
Let the impenitent sinner turn from his sins at once — no delay , life is uncertain and short . This night thy soul may be required - a notice dreadful and short . Let authors be clear , concise , pointed , comprehensive , independent ...
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Confined to no age or country , its unholy leaven , once introduced into the mass , may suddenly pollute the whole lump , and produce fearful and rapid destruction . Its march is onward ; it gains force and velocity , and the moment it ...
Confined to no age or country , its unholy leaven , once introduced into the mass , may suddenly pollute the whole lump , and produce fearful and rapid destruction . Its march is onward ; it gains force and velocity , and the moment it ...
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We should all make the acquaintance of this , our final deliverer , voluntarily and at once . Treat death as an enemiy , and unkindly leave him to force himself upon us at the last hour ! How cruel . Treat death as an enemy !
We should all make the acquaintance of this , our final deliverer , voluntarily and at once . Treat death as an enemiy , and unkindly leave him to force himself upon us at the last hour ! How cruel . Treat death as an enemy !
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| Title | The Moral Probe: Or One Hundred and Two Common Sense Essays on the Nature of Men and Things: Interspersed with Scraps of Science and History |
| Author | Levi Carroll Judson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | The author, 1848 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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