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Show TEMPER IS CRUELTY. A great source of cruelty is temper. When it is considered what a vast sum -of misery temper causes in the world, how many homes are darkened and " how many hearts are saddened by it; when we remember that its persecutions persecu-tions have not even the purifying consequences of most other calami- , ties, inasmuch as its effects upon its innocent victims are rather cankerous than medicinal; when we call to mind that a bright face and a bright disposition dispo-sition are like sunshine in a house, and a gloomy, lowering countenance as depressing as an Arctic night, we must acknowledge that temper itself is only another form of cruelty, and a very bad form, too. |