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Date: 1755

"They say this town is full of cozenage, / Drug-working sorcerers that change the mind; / Soul-killing witches that deform the body; / And many such like libertines of sin."

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"That souls of animals infuse themselves / Into the trunks of men"

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold, / A lad of life, and imp of fame."

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"I've seen thee stern, and thou hast oft beheld
Heart hardening spectacles"

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"Of sorriest fancies your companions making, / Using those thoughts which should indeed have died / With them they think on."

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
With them they think on."

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

Fancy "is engender'd in the eyes, / With gazing fed and fancy dies/ In the cradle where it lies."

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"When valour preys on reason / It eats the sword it fights with"

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"He that brings this love to thee, / Little knows this love in me; / And by him seal up thy mind."

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"Who has a breast so pure,/ But some uncleanly apprehensions/ Keep leets and law days, and in sessions sit,/ With meditations lawful"

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.