Occupation: Poet Birth: 1697 Death: August 1, 1743
The only thought in the world that is worth anything is free thought. To free thought we owe all past progress and all hope for the future. Since whe….
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….
Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction..
By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels..
When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely..
The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest..
Those who murder fame Kill more than life destroyers..
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face..