GEMS OF THOUGHT
REVENGE. Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice; injuries are revenged, crimes are avenged.—Joubert. He who studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green.—Bacon. The best sort of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury.—Antoninus. Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe thyself.—Shakespeare. Revenge is inadmissible. Wrath which is only appeased is not destroyed, but partly indulged.—Mary Baker Eddy. Revenge is a common passion: it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble; but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civiliser, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge. —Bulwar.
Vengeance is mine, I will repay.— Bible.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1939, Page 8
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