Quote#Politics & Power
Be not mortally angry with any for a venial fault. He will make a…
Quote byThomas Fuller · 1608–1661
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Of Anger.
English (original)
Be not mortally angry with any for a venial fault. He will make a strange combustion in the state of his soul, who at the landing of every cockboat sets the beacons on fire. To be angry for every toy debases the worth of thy anger; for he who will be angry for any thing, will be angry for nothing.
— Thomas Fuller
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