Our charge in life is not see how angry we can become to prove our strength. In fact, it is the opposite:
Abraham Lincoln was very lenient toward the leaders of the Confederacy, even though they were his enemy during the Civil War. On of his cabinet ministers chided him, “Why do you treat your enemies with kindness? You should try to destroy them.”
Lincoln answered, “I treat them with kindness because I want to destroy them. How will I destroy them? By making them my friends.”
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