Quote#Nature
Underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat of a volcano. He…
Quote byJohn Tyndall · 1820–1893
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Faraday as a Discoverer (1868), "Points of Character", p. 37..
English (original)
Underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat of a volcano. He was a man of excitable and fiery nature; but through high self-discipline he had converted the fire into a central glow and motive power of life, instead of permitting it to waste itself in useless passion.
— John Tyndall
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