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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Vehemence

Vehemence without feeling is rant.

G. H. Lewes.

Violence does even justice unjustly.

Carlyle.

Nothing good comes of violence.

Luther.

I tremble at his vehemence of temper.

Addison.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Shakespeare.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue with bigots.

J. Petit-Senn.

Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.

Beaconsfield.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

Lowell.