How impossible it is for [us] to see things right when [we] are angry. Does not passion blind the eyes of the understanding as smoke does the bodily eyes? And how little of the truth can we learn from those who see nothing but through a cloud? Correction must not be given in anger; if it be so, it will lose its effect on the child, who think [they] are corrected, not because [they] have done a fault, but because the parent is angry.
The Rev. John Wesley, A.M., tract on "The Duties of Husbands and Wives"
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