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«Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.»
«Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.»
«He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.»
«Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.»
«Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.»
«Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny»
«Be slow of tongue and quick of eye»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | About: Learning | Keywords: eye, quick, slow, tongue
«He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city»
Author: Bible | About: Anger | Keywords: city, good spirit, in good spirits, mighty, slow, The Mighty
«A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.»
«He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.»

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