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"It is because anger and impatience are the very pith and sap of pride that they please the devil so much. Impatience, a close cousin of anger, loses the fruit of its labor, deprives the soul of God; it begins by knowing a foretaste of hell, and later it brings men to eternal damnation: for in hell the evil perverted will burn with anger, hate, and impatience. There is no sin or wrong that gives a man such a foretaste of hell in this life as anger and impatience." - St. Catherine of Siena