theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context "","""He that strives not to Stem his Angers Tide, / Does a Mad Horse without a Bridle ride.""",7507,Animals,"Reading Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, ed. Vincent Carretta (Penguin, 1998), p. 37.",21500,2013-07-08 13:31:34 UTC,2013-07-08 13:33:26 UTC,,"","SIR WILL.
Ah!--A Fair Riddance; how I bless my self, that it was not in this Fools power to provoke me beyond that Serenity of Temper, which a wise man ought to be Master of: How near are men to Brutes, when their unruly Passions break the Bounds of Reason? And of all Passions, Anger is the most violent, which often puts me in mind of that admirable Saying,

He that strives not to Stem his Angers Tide,
Does a Mad Horse without a Bridle ride.

(III.i, p. 42)","Act III, scene i"