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British writer/philosopher

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“For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations
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“What avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own? Enjoy the present; nor which needless cares Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb, Appal the surest hour that life bestows. Serence, and master of yourself, prepare For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven.”

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Book:John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice
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