Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.