“Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.”
Reported in The Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Matthew Henry (1830), p. 134.
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Theologician from Wales 1662–1714Related quotes
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