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Date: 1767

"Our pardon infallibly seal, / And heaven implant in our heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1767

"And sure forgiveness sealest / On all our waiting hearts."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1767

"The promise and the prayer is seal'd, / Seal'd on her heart in gospel-peace."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1767

"The witness breathe into my heart, / And seal my sins forgiven."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1767

"But graciously forgive me, / And seal it on my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1767

"And fill up all Thy human shrine, / And seal our souls for ever Thine"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1767, 1784

"Shall we, because we strive in vain to tell / How Matter acts on incorporeal Mind, / Or how, when sleep has lock'd up ev'ry sense, / Or fevers rage, Imagination paints / Unreal scenes, reject what sober sense, / And calmest thought attest?"

— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)

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Date: 1770

"Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, / The soul adopts and owns their firstborn sway; / Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, / Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

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Date: 1770

"Excursive thought" may "Stand still a moment, and by reason taught / Judge rightly, with strict eye thyself survey"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

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Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875

"Though Fancy under Reason's lash may fall, / Yet Fancy in Religion's all in all"

— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

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