“283. A Man in Passion rides a Horse that runs away with him.”

—  Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1749) : A Man in a Passion rides a mad Horse.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734

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