There is not any creature so terrible and dangerous b}
nature, but it becomes fiercer by anger. Not ^^ creatures
that beasts have human afi^ctions, but cer- are made more
tain impulses they have which come very near ternbie by
them. The boar foams, champs, and whets his *"^®'^"
wusks ; the bull tosses his horns in the air, bounds, and tears
up the ground with his feet; the lion roars and swinges
himself with his tail; the serpent swells; and there is a
ghastly kind of fellness in the aspect of a mad dog. How
great a wickedness is it now to indulge a violence, that
does not only turn a man into a beast, but makes even the
most outrageous of beasts themselves to be more dreadful
and mischievous ! A vice that carries along with it neither
pleasure nor profit, neither honor nor security ; but on the
contrary, destroys us to all the comfortable and glorious pur-
poses of our reasonable being. Some there are, that will
have the root of it to be the greatness of mind. And, why
may we not as well entitle impudence to courage^ whereas
tlie one is proud, the other brave ; the one is gracious and
gentle, the other rude and furious 1 At the same rate we
may ascribe magnanimity to avarice, luxury, and ambition,
which are all but splendid impotences, without measure and
without foundation. There is nothing great but what is
•virtuous, nor indeed truly great, but what is also composed
and quiet. Anger, alas! is but a wild impetuous blast ar

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