“'He that conquereth his own soul is greater than he who taketh a city.'... To this day I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone.”
In his 1967 memoir, Eisenhower recalled a childhood lesson from his mother Ida on controlling his temper. After a rage in which he pounded an apple tree until his hands bled, she quoted Proverbs 16:32, then sat quietly with him for an hour.
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