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Richard Savage
English
Poet
About the author
When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
Richard Savage,
English
Poet
#Action
#Thought
#Man
#Anger
Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.
Richard Savage,
English
Poet
#Anger
#Devil
Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.
Richard Savage,
English
Poet
#Thought
#Truth
#Fiction
#Contradiction
#Sex
#Whim
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
Richard Savage,
English
Poet
#Race