PURGE from our hearts the stain so deep and foul,
Of wrath and pride and care;
Send Thine own holy calm, upon the soul,
And bid it settle there!
-ANONYMOUS
LET this truth be present to thee in the excitement of anger,-that to be moved by passion is not manly, but that mildness and gentleness, as they are more agreeable to human nature, so also are they more manly. . . .For in the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
-MARCUS ANTONINUS
IT is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle, for this is naturally pleasing to all, and everyone enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable and manly thing.
-THOMAS A. KEMPIS
