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Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
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“Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.”

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King James Bible — Psalm 37:8
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1611
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King James Version translation committees · from Biblical Hebrew / Aramaic / Koine Greek
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Meaning of “Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not…”

Anger is treated as something to release before it becomes a reason for harmful action.

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Psalm 37:8 in the King James Version.

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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”

Seneca · Of Anger, Book II · c. 45
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Delay interrupts the first impulse of anger and gives judgment time to test whether the perceived offence deserves the reaction it initially provoked.

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On Anger, Book II, section XXIX, Aubrey Stewart’s public-domain translation in Minor Dialogues, cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #64576 and the complete Wikisource Book II transcription. “The greatest remedy for anger is delay” opens Seneca’s practical argument that postponement lets judgment test an offence and can allow anger to subside. It is Roman Stoic moral philosophy rather than modern psychotherapy or clinical anger-management evidence.

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I wish'd the man a dinner, and sat still.
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“I wish'd the man a dinner, and sat still.”

Alexander Pope · Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot · 1735
Meaning & context

The satirical speaker portrays restraint as refusing to escalate a literary attack, answering hostility with a comic wish that the critic’s need might be relieved.

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An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot (1735 first-edition scan), printed page 8 / scan leaf 14, around lines 148–150. After saying Gildon drew his “venal quill,” Pope says he wished him a dinner and did not answer the attack. The first edition reads “sate still,” while the later/normalized Gutenberg #9800 witness underlying the frozen catalog reads “sat still”; this collection wording is retained and the witness variation is disclosed rather than silently rewritten.

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