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Date: 1697

"You compare Cogitation in a Spirit, to Motion in a Body, and so Cessation from Thought in a a Spirit, must answer to Rest in a Body"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1697

The soul may sleep

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1697

A "thoughtless, senseless, lifeless Soul" is the "Carcase of a Soul"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1697

"If a Body cease to move, and come to perfect rest, the Motion it had cannot be restor'd, but a new Motion may be produc'd."

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1743

The wounded heart may be supported by songs and healed by morals

— Collins, William (1721-1759)

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Date: 1743

The heart may bleed

— Collins, William (1721-1759)

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Date: 1764, 1773

"But 'tis not Gomez, 'tis not he whose heart / Is crusted o'er with dross, whose callous mind / Is senseless as his gold."

— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)

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Date: 1796

"The eye of the mind is dazzled and vanquished."

— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)

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Date: 1796

"An ancient writer, Plutarch, I think it is, quotes some verses on the eloquence of Pericles, who is called "the only orator that left stings in the minds of his hearers." Like his, the eloquence of the declaration, not contradicting, but enforcing sentiments of the truest humanity, has left stin...

— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)

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Date: 1796

"It is the common doom of man that he must eat his bread by the sweat of his brow, that is, by the sweat of his body, or the sweat of his mind."

— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)

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