Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Savage

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English poet Richard Savage.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Richard Savage was an English poet. He is best known as the subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage, originally published anonymously in 1744, which is based on one of the most elaborate of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets.

English - Poet | 1697 - August 1, 1743

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Those who murder fame Kill more than life destroyers.

Richard Savage

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

Richard Savage

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

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

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 when has any one made it appear that shackled thought could get on better than that which is free? Brains are a great misfortune if one is never to use them.

Richard Savage

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

Richard Savage

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.

Richard Savage

The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.

Richard Savage