Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. -Carl Sandburg

 

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.


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This quote is just one of 19 total Carl Sandburg quotes in our collection. Carl Sandburg is known for saying 'Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.' as well as some of the following quotes.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Carl Sandburg

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Carl Sandburg

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Carl Sandburg