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Date: 1739

"Yes, Speech is Animi Index, & Speculum; 'tis the Interpreter of the Heart, 'tis the Image of the Soul."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)

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Date: 1739

Speech is "a Mirror that plainly represents to us the most hidden Secrets of us Individuals."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)

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Date: 1739

"I have had some Scruples, Madam, and opened the Eyes of my Mind upon what I was a doing"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)

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Date: 1739

"Oh! Lack-a-day, I have Don John at Finger's ends, and know your Heart to be the greatest Rambler in the World; 'tis pleas'd to run from Chains to Chains, and never loves to rest in one Place."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)

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Date: 1739

"My Heart flutters within me for Fear of him, like a Bird that's hunted in a Cage."

— Bellamy, Daniel, the Elder (b. 1687)

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Date: 1739

Reason may be "lost in good Wine," but "All the Fumes will away / That did the bright Regent confine"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

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Date: 1739

"What Law of Beauty gives her the Empire over all Hearts?"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

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Date: 1739

"These are the very Words which Grief, Madam, has engrav'd in the bottom of my Heart"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

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Date: 1739

"How delightful a thing it is to love, when there is no Obstacle to those aimiable Chains with which two Hearts are united together!"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

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Date: 1739

"Marriage is a chain shou'd never be impos'd by Force upon a Heart, and if the Gentleman is a Man of Honour, he should never accept a Person, who must be his by Constraint."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

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