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Furor arma ministrat=--Their rage finds them arms.

Virgil.

Peace with them! You know what they’d do? They would take my crown, they’d cut off your head, they would take over the city of Jericho.” “They may do that anyway, sire.” “Get out—get out—get out!” King Jokab screamed. “You’re the commander in chief of my armies. I want every man given a sword. Every man or boy who can walk. We have the strongest city in the world. No army can breach our walls. Now, do your job, Zanoah, or I’ll have your head for it.” Zanoah stared at the king, then nodded and started to speak, but seeing the insane rage on King Jokab’s face, he shrugged his burly shoulders, turned,

Gilbert Morris

In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.     _King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1._

John Thornton stood over Buck, struggling to control himself, too convulsed with rage to speak. "If you strike that dog again, I'll kill you," he at last managed to say in a choking voice.

Jack London

Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.

SIR JOHN DENHAM. 1615-1668.     _Cooper's Hill. Line 189._

Men / Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief / Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, / Their counsel turns to passion, which before / Would give preceptial medicine to rage, / Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, / Charm ache with air and agony with words.

_Much Ado_, v. 1.

La colpa seguira la parte offensa / In grido, como suol=--Blame, as is wont, wreaks its rage on those who suffer wrong.

_Dante._

Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is to fever and rage to anger.

_Voltaire._

Young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more.

_Rich. II._, ii. 1.

Let it go, let it go! I am one with the wind and sky! Let it go, let it go! You'll never see me cry… Let it go, let it go! And I'll rise like the break of dawn Let it go, let it go! That perfect girl is gone Here I stand In the light of day! Let the storm rage on! The cold never bothered me anyway!

Queen Elsa ~ in ~ Frozen

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Maturin M. Ballou     Pearls of Thought

Furor iraque mentem pr?cipitant=--Rage and anger hurry on the mind.

Virgil.

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of our souls, / The wise man's fetter and the rage of fools.

_Otway._

Authors alone, with more than savage rage, / Unnatural war with brother authors wage.

_Churchill._

What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

JOHN WOLCOT. 1738-1819.     _To the Royal Academicians._

Vulgarity consists in a deadness of the heart and body, resulting from prolonged, and especially from inherited conditions of "degeneracy," or literally "unracing;" gentlemanliness being another name for intense humanity. And vulgarity shows itself in dulness of heart, not in rage or cruelty, but in inability to feel or conceive noble character or emotion. Dulness of bodily sense and general stupidity are its material manifestations.

_Ruskin._

~Innovation.~--The ridiculous rage for innovation, which only increases the weight of the chains it cannot break, shall never fire my blood!--_Schiller._

Maturin M. Ballou     Pearls of Thought

Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way awhile and let it waste.

_Shakespeare._

>Rage avails less than courage.

_Fr. Pr._

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

Justum et tenacem propositi virum, / Non civium ardor prava jubentium, / Non vultus instantis tyranni / Mente quatit solida=--Not the rage of the citizens commanding wrongful measures, not the aspect of the threatening tyrant, can shake from his firm purpose the man who is just and resolute.

Horace.

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.     _King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 2._

The mind of man is capable of anything — because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valour, rage — who can tell? — but truth — truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder — the man knows, and can look on without a wink.

Joseph Conrad ~ in ~ Heart of Darkness

Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.

T. H. Huxley     Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley

I now reckon upon a speedy dissolution. I have suffered very little pain from my disorder; and what is more strange have, notwithstanding the great decline of my person, never suffered a moment's abatement of spirits; insomuch that were I to name the period of my life which I should most choose to pass over again, I might be tempted to point to this later period. I possess the same ardour as ever in study, and the same gaiety in company; I consider, besides, that a man of sixty-five, by dying, cuts off only a few years of infirmities; and though I see many symptoms of my literary reputation's breaking out at last with additional lustre, I know that I could have but few years to enjoy it. It is difficult to be more detached from life than I am at present. "To conclude historically with my own character, I am, or rather was (for that is the style I must now use in speaking of myself); I was, I say, a man of mild dispositions, of command of temper, of an open, social, and cheerful humour, capable of attachment, but little susceptible of enmity, and of great moderation in all my passions. Even my love of literary fame, my ruling passion, never soured my temper, notwithstanding my frequent disappointments. My company was not unacceptable to the young and careless, as well as to the studious and literary; and as I took a particular pleasure in the company of modest women, I had no reason to be displeased with the reception I met with from them. In a word, though most men any wise eminent, have found reason to complain of calumny, I never was touched or even attacked by her baleful tooth; and though I wantonly exposed myself to the rage of both civil and religious factions, they seemed to be disarmed in my behalf of their wonted fury. My friends never had occasion to vindicate any one circumstance of my character and conduct; not but that the zealots, we may well suppose, would have been glad to invent and propagate any story to my disadvantage, but they could never find any which they thought would wear the face of probability. I cannot say there is no vanity in making this funeral oration of myself, but I hope it is not a misplaced one; and this is a matter of fact which is easily cleared and ascertained.

David Hume

Like mighty rivers, with resistless force, / The passions rage, obstructed in their course, / Swell to new heights, forbidden paths explore, / And drown those virtues which they fed before.

_Pope._

As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.

EDMUND SPENSER. 1553-1599.     _Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto viii. St. 11._

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Anne Frank

somewhere under the rage, there's something human. barely.

Graham McNamee

Man without patience is the lamp without oil, and pride in a rage is a bad counsellor.

_A. de Musset._

People (in authority) are accustomed merely to forbid, to hinder, to refuse, but rarely to bid, to further, and to reward. They let things go along till some mischief happens; then they fly into a rage, and lay about them.

_Goethe._

Nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, / But music for the time doth change its nature.

_Mer. of Venice_, v. 1.

Women's rage, like shallow water, / Does but show their hurtless nature; / When the stream seems rough and frowning, / There is still least fear of drowning.

_Durfey._

Deal mildly with his youth; / For young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more.

_Rich. II._, ii. 1.

Who so unworthy but may proudly deck him / With his fair-weather virtue, that exults / Glad o'er the summer main? The tempest comes, / The rough winds rage aloud; when from the helm / This virtue shrinks, and in a corner lies / Lamenting.

_Thomson._

Nothing is so important to man as his condition, nothing so formidable to him as eternity; and thus it is not natural there should be men indifferent to the loss of their being, and to the peril of an endless woe. They are quite other men in regard to all else; they fear the veriest trifles, they foresee them, they feel them; and the very man who spends so many days and nights in rage and despair for the loss of office or for some imaginary insult to his honour, is the same who, without disquiet and without emotion, knows that he must lose all by death. It is a monstrous thing to see in one and the same heart and at the same time this sensibility to the meanest, and this strange insensibility to the greatest matters. It is an incomprehensible spell, a supernatural drowsiness, which denotes as its cause an all powerful force.

Blaise Pascal     The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses."

PLUTARCH. 46(?)-120(?) A. D.     _Life of Phocion._

In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man / As modest stillness and humility; / But when the blast of war blows in our ears, / Then imitate the action of the tiger; / Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, / Disguise fair Nature with hard-favour'd rage, / Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; / Let it pry through the portage of the head / Like the brass cannons.

_Hen. V._, iii. 1.

Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

JONATHAN SWIFT. 1667-1745.     _Letter to Bolingbroke, March 21, 1729._

He slowly crossed the barn to squat down in front of her, never once looking away. His callused palm was warm around her icy fingers. “You must never lie to me,” he said softly. “Whatever your story, be it good or bad, I will accept. I am not your father, who will storm and rage at you when disappointed.” And the warmth in his eyes made her believe every word he spoke was true. “You are perfectly and beautifully made,” Michael continued. “You are exactly as God intended for you to be, and I love you precisely as you are.

Elizabeth Camden

Though gentle, yet not dull, / Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full.

_Denham._

Jealousy is the rage of a man.

_Bible._

Inde ir? et lacrim?=--Hence rage and tears.

Juvenal.

But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

THOMAS GRAY. 1716-1771.     _Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Stanza 13._

Furor fit l?sa s?pius patientia=--Patience, when outraged often, is converted into rage.

Proverb.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

_Congreve._

And thou, O man, who wilt gaze in this work of mine on the marvellous works of nature, if thou thinkest it would be an act of wickedness to destroy it, think how much more wicked it is to take the life of a man; and if this his structure appears to thee a miraculous work of art, remember that {32} it is nothing in comparison with the soul which inhabits this structure; for verily, whatever it may be, it is divine. Let it, then, dwell in His work and at His good will, and let not thy rage or malice destroy so great a thing as life, for he who does not value it does not deserve it.

Leonardo da Vinci     Thoughts on Art and Life

>Rage is mental imbecility.

_H. Ballou._

Trahit ipse furoris / Impetus, et visum est lenti qu?sisse nocentem=--The very violence of their rage drags them on, and to inquire who is guilty were a waste of time.

_Lucan._

Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

Jules Verne, born 8 February 1828

Furor loquendi=--A rage for speaking.

Unknown

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Gertrude Stein

Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, / Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll; / Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, / And froze the genial current of the soul.

_Gray._

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

JOHN DRYDEN. 1631-1701.     _Alexander's Feast. Line 160._

Patience et longueur de temps / Font plus que force ni que rage=--Patience and length of time accomplish more than violence and rage.

_La Fontaine._

Furor scribendi=--A rage for writing.

Unknown

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime; Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime?

LORD BYRON 1788-1824.     _The Bride of Abydos. Canto i. Stanza 1._

What rage for fame attends both great and small! / Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

_John Wolcot._

~Impatience.~--Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.--_Jeremy Taylor._

Maturin M. Ballou     Pearls of Thought

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.     _Sonnet lxv._

>Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

_Hannah More._

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

WILLIAM CONGREVE. 1670-1729.     _The Mourning Bride. Act iii. Sc. 8._

Magnus sine viribus ignis / Incassum furit=--A great fire, unless you feed it, spends its rage in vain.

Virgil.

Serene, and safe from passion's stormy rage, how calm they glide into the port of age!--_Shenstone._

Maturin M. Ballou     Pearls of Thought

The current that with gentle murmur glides, / Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage.

_Two Gent. of Ver._, ii. 7.

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle / Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime; / Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, / Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime?

_Byron._

Ignorance is never out of style.  It was in fashion yesterday, it is the

>rage today, and it will set the pace tomorrow.

        -- Franklin K. Dane

Fortune Cookie

The magician is seated in his high chair and looks upon the world with favor.

He is at the height of his powers.  If he closes his eyes, he causes the world

to disappear.  If he opens his eyes, he causes the world to come back.  If

there is harmony within him, the world is harmonious.  If rage shatters his

inner harmony, the unity of the world is shattered.  If desire arises within

him, he utters the magic syllables that causes the desired object to appear.

His wishes, his thoughts, his gestures, his noises command the universe.

        -- Selma Fraiberg, _The Magic Years_, pg. 107

Fortune Cookie

A robin redbreast in a cage

Puts all Heaven in a rage.

        -- Blake

Fortune Cookie

Life is a concentration camp.  You're stuck here and there's no way

out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.

        -- Woody Allen

Fortune Cookie

The Great Movie Posters:

KATHERINE HEPBURN as the lying, stealing, singing, preying witch girl

of the Ozarks... "Low down white trash"?  Maybe so -- but let her hear

you say it and she'll break your head to prove herself a lady!

        -- Spitfire (1934)

Do Native Women Live With Apes?

        -- Love Life of a Gorilla (1937)

JUNGLE KISS!!

    When she looked into his eyes, felt his arms around her -- she

was no longer Tura, mysterious white goddess of the jungle tribes --

she was no longer the frozen-hearted high priestess under whose hypnotic

spell the worshippers of the great crocodile god meekly bowed -- she

was a girl in love!

    SEE the ravening charge of the hundred scared CROCODILES!

        -- Her Jungle Love (1938)

LOVE! HATE! JOY! FEAR! TORMENT! PANIC! SHAME! RAGE!

        -- Intermezzo (1939)

Fortune Cookie

"Speak!" said the general, beside himself with rage and excitement; "speak--under the penalty of a father's curse!"

Fyodor Dostoyevsky     The Idiot

All were ready. The barricade, which had long been silent, poured forth a desperate fire; seven or eight discharges followed, with a sort of rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end of a few minutes, athwart this mist all streaked with flame, two thirds of the gunners could be distinguished lying beneath the wheels of the cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with severe tranquillity, but the fire had slackened.

Victor Hugo     Les Miserables

"That cannot be; but all that I can say will be of little avail. My revenge is of no moment to you; yet, while I allow it to be a vice, I confess that it is the devouring and only passion of my soul. My rage is unspeakable when I reflect that the murderer, whom I have turned loose upon society, still exists. You refuse my just demand; I have but one resource, and I devote myself, either in my life or death, to his destruction."

Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley     Frankenstein

16:22. They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man's sin shall thy wrath rage against all?

THE BOOK OF NUMBERS     OLD TESTAMENT

13:9. But the king, with his mind full of rage, came on to shew himself worse to the Jews than his father was.

THE SECOND BOOK OF MACHABEES     OLD TESTAMENT

She tossed her head and passed on. Tom was so stunned that he had not even presence of mind enough to say "Who cares, Miss Smarty?" until the right time to say it had gone by. So he said nothing. But he was in a fine rage, nevertheless. He moped into the schoolyard wishing she were a boy, and imagining how he would trounce her if she were. He presently encountered her and delivered a stinging remark as he passed. She hurled one in return, and the angry breach was complete. It seemed to Becky, in her hot resentment, that she could hardly wait for school to "take in," she was so impatient to see Tom flogged for the injured spelling-book. If she had had any lingering notion of exposing Alfred Temple, Tom's offensive fling had driven it entirely away.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)     The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

My rage was without bounds; I sprang on him, impelled by all the feelings which can arm one being against the existence of another.

Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley     Frankenstein

Then answer, thus, cloud-gatherer Jove return'd. Look forth, imperial Juno, if thou wilt, To-morrow at the blush of earliest dawn, And thou shalt see Saturn's almighty son The Argive host destroying far and wide. For Hector's fury shall admit no pause Till he have roused Achilles, in that day When at the ships, in perilous straits, the hosts Shall wage fierce battle for Patroclus slain. Such is the voice of fate. But, as for thee-- Withdraw thou to the confines of the abyss Where Saturn and Iäpetus retired, Exclusion sad endure from balmy airs And from the light of morn, hell-girt around, I will not call thee thence. No. Should thy rage Transport thee thither, there thou may'st abide, There sullen nurse thy disregarded spleen Obstinate as thou art, and void of shame.

BOOK VIII.     The Iliad by Homer

2:5. Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his rage.

THE BOOK OF PSALMS     OLD TESTAMENT

For the first few days the Thenardiers had chattered in their rage. The disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He immediately obtained numerous versions of the story, which ended in the abduction of a child. Hence the police report. But their first vexation having passed off, Thenardier, with his wonderful instinct, had very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the prosecutor of the Crown, and that his complaints with regard to the abduction of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon himself, and upon many dark affairs which he had on hand, the glittering eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle brought to them. And in the first place, how explain the fifteen hundred francs which he had received? He turned squarely round, put a gag on his wife's mouth, and feigned astonishment when the stolen child was mentioned to him. He understood nothing about it; no doubt he had grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" so hastily; he should have liked to keep her two or three days longer, out of tenderness; but her "grandfather" had come for her in the most natural way in the world. He added the "grandfather," which produced a good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at Montfermeil. The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish.

Victor Hugo     Les Miserables

21:31. And I will pour out upon thee my indignation: in the fire of my rage will I blow upon thee, and will give thee into the hands of men that are brutish and contrive thy destruction.

THE PROPHECY OF EZECHIEL     OLD TESTAMENT

"You hear how he slanders me, prince," said Lebedeff, almost beside himself with rage. "I may be a drunkard, an evil-doer, a thief, but at least I can say one thing for myself. He does not know--how should he, mocker that he is?--that when he came into the world it was I who washed him, and dressed him in his swathing-bands, for my sister Anisia had lost her husband, and was in great poverty. I was very little better off than she, but I sat up night after night with her, and nursed both mother and child; I used to go downstairs and steal wood for them from the house-porter. How often did I sing him to sleep when I was half dead with hunger! In short, I was more than a father to him, and now--now he jeers at me! Even if I did cross myself, and pray for the repose of the soul of the Comtesse du Barry, what does it matter? Three days ago, for the first time in my life, I read her biography in an historical dictionary. Do you know who she was? You there!" addressing his nephew. "Speak! do you know?"

Fyodor Dostoyevsky     The Idiot

By a rapid movement, which the gendarme's practiced eye had perceived, Dantes sprang forward to precipitate himself into the sea; but four vigorous arms seized him as his feet quitted the bottom of the boat. He fell back cursing with rage.

Alexandre Dumas, Pere     The Count of Monte Cristo

"You see, I never had any of these doubts before, but it was all hidden away in me. It was perhaps just because ideas I did not understand were surging up in me, that I used to drink and fight and rage. It was to stifle them in myself, to still them, to smother them. Ivan is not Rakitin, there is an idea in him. Ivan is a sphinx and is silent; he is always silent. It's God that's worrying me. That's the only thing that's worrying me. What if He doesn't exist? What if Rakitin's right--that it's an idea made up by men? Then if He doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without God? That's the question. I always come back to that. For whom is man going to love then? To whom will he be thankful? To whom will he sing the hymn? Rakitin laughs. Rakitin says that one can love humanity without God. Well, only a sniveling idiot can maintain that. I can't understand it. Life's easy for Rakitin. 'You'd better think about the extension of civic rights, or even of keeping down the price of meat. You will show your love for humanity more simply and directly by that, than by philosophy.' I answered him, 'Well, but you, without a God, are more likely to raise the price of meat, if it suits you, and make a rouble on every copeck.' He lost his temper. But after all, what is goodness? Answer me that, Alexey. Goodness is one thing with me and another with a Chinaman, so it's a relative thing. Or isn't it? Is it not relative? A treacherous question! You won't laugh if I tell you it's kept me awake two nights. I only wonder now how people can live and think nothing about it. Vanity! Ivan has no God. He has an idea. It's beyond me. But he is silent. I believe he is a free-mason. I asked him, but he is silent. I wanted to drink from the springs of his soul--he was silent. But once he did drop a word."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky     The Brothers Karamazov

To whom Achilles, matchless in the race. So be it, ancient Priam! I will curb Twelve days the rage of war, at thy desire.

BOOK XXIV.     The Iliad by Homer

22:24. And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

THE BOOK OF EXODUS     OLD TESTAMENT

Sister Perpetue was an ordinary villager, a sister of charity in a coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other service. She was a nun as other women are cooks. This type is not so very rare. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpetue was a robust nun from Marines near Pontoise, who chattered her patois, droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their death agony with prayers mumbled in a rage; was bold, honest, and ruddy.

Victor Hugo     Les Miserables

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