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Various rules have been at various times been given for
the suppression of anger – most of which consist of devices for
giving the irritation time to allay itself before it breaks out info
offensive words or actions. All these rules are in fact appeals
to sober judgment against excited passions. The deliberate
repetition of the alphabet – a walk into the open air if
the scene of excitement be within doors – any device indeed
for diverting the mind from its irascible tendency may be
used with effect. But far better thoughts instead of depending on the chance
of finding the power of alienating the mind from its angry
dispositions, when on any particular occasion they chance
to be awakened, – it would be far better to obtain that habit the power of
subjugating those anger dispositions by the habitual exercise
of the corrective influences. Hence in the cool & quiet
morning hour – when nothing disturbs the tranquillity of your
feelings, satisfy yourself completely of the usefulness &
applicability of those rules for which you may have occasion
in the hour moment of exasperation. Lodge them – fix them firmly
in your memory – think frequently of their value – &
thus when any incidental provocation happens to
excite anger, the recollection of these rules may
serve to repress it. It is thus that in this way you will purchase
redemption from the slavery to which passion would
subject you on the cheapest & the safest terms.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	446	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f131
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[bottom of shell motif] holland]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	p. d. handyside
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5662
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