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Easy come, easy go; Easy, times easy, is still easy; Early marriage, earlier pregnant; Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper; Eat, drink and be merry, (for tomorrow we die) Empty vessels make the most noise; Enough is as good as a feast; Even a worm will turn; Even from a foe a man may learn wisdom
"To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me too but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe." [23] — Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress, dancer and singer (14 December 1944), in her suicide note, addressed to actor Harald Ramond. Vélez was pregnant with Ramond's child at the time.
There was a memorable five-minute interlude in this year’s Grammy Awards. It will soon fade, as most such moments do. Fading memories don’t make them less meaningful.
It is generally characterized as the control over excess, and expressed through characteristics such as chastity, modesty, humility, self-regulation, hospitality, decorum, abstinence, and forgiveness; each of these involves restraining an excess of some impulse, such as sexual desire, vanity, or anger. In classical iconography, the virtue is ...
Aristotle used it in a technical sense as the virtue that strikes the mean with regard to anger: being too quick to anger is a vice, but so is being detached in a situation where anger is appropriate; justified and properly focused anger is named mildness or gentleness. [2] Gentleness is not passive; it requires a resistance to brutality.
Although excess anger does not beget sympathy, neither does too little anger, as this may signal fear or uncaring on the part of the offended. This lack of response is just as despicable to the impartial spectator as is the excesses of anger. However, in general, any expression of anger is improper in the presence of others.
The expression was anthologised in English translation by George Herbert in his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula Prudentum (1652), as "God's mill grinds slow but sure" (no. 743). German epigrammatist Friedrich von Logau , in his Sinngedichte (c. 1654), composed an extended variant of the saying under the title "Göttliche Rache" (divine ...
Augustine: If it be not lawful to be angry with a brother, or to say to him Racha, or Thou fool, much less is it lawful to keep in the memory any thing which might convert anger into hate. [ 9 ] Jerome : It is not, If thou hast ought against thy brother; but, If thy brother has ought against thee, that the necessity of reconciliation may be ...