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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

outburst of an­ger, but those states we might call chronic anger, such as impatience, petulance, irrita­bility, bad temper, and the like, produce as clear forms of intoxication (poisoning) as alcohol. Many cases of chronic indigestion, ner- vousness, morbidity, and hypochondria are attributable to nothing but slow anger poison. If one can clean the harmful ferments out of his body by a dose of salts or by the use 140 POUR MINUTE ESSAYS of bran and oil, he can also cleanse his sys­tem of far more toxic contents by forgiving his enemies every night before he goes to bed, by daily purging his consciousness of all hates, resentments, and grudges. Anger is sometimes unavoidable, as when we witness or hear of some outrageous act of injustice or cruelty. But if we must have it, let it be quick and soon over. For when it remains in us it is we who suffer, and not our adversary. It unnerves our hand, blinds our vision, impairs our judgment, and when it leaps to vengeance invariably overleaps, bringing to us regret and remorse in lieu of satisfaction.

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