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Date: 1600

"Not to be married, / Not to knit my soul to an approvèd wanton."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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Date: 1600

"Than to drive liking to the name of love. / But now I am returned, and that war-thoughts/ Have left their places vacant, in their rooms / Come thronging soft and delicate desires."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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Date: 1600

"Th' idea of her life shall sweetly creep / Into his study of imagination."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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Date: 1600

"Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy"

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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Date: 1600

"And when the mind is quickened, out of doubt / The organs, though defunct and dead before, / Break up their drowsy grave and newly move / With casted slough and fresh legerity."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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Date: 1600

"For if you hide the crown / Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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Date: 1600

"The King's a bawcock and a heart-of-gold."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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Date: 1600

"I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart. But the saying is true: 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.'"

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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Date: 1600

A "good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon -- or rather the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps his course truly."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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Date: 1600

"For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, / Carry them here and there, jumping o'er times."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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