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Date: 1694

"But above all, the Phaenix , that the Learned Lactantius writes of, may put us in mind, if not confirm to us the Resurrection, for after she has lived in the Arabian Fields (as some affirm) about 600 Years, and finding her self wasted with Age and Infirmity, she gathers the ...

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

The body may be resurrected like "Grain thrown into the Ground" that continues there "for a season, as if lost and dead, but when warmth and moisture gives it force, it springs up, and bears a hundred-fold" in the "Resurrection of the Spring."

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

A wife is another self, "one in whose Breast, as in a sage Cabinet, is reposed his inmost Secrets"

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

A ray of good sense

— Author Unknown

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Date: 1696

"The Common Lawyers devour the Body and Estate, the Spiritual Court the Soul."

— Anonymous; George Powell (1658-1714), Publisher

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Date: 1696

"No thy ill Conscience flying in thy face, that never will let thee rest, thy rusty Soul hath infected thy Body with the Jaundice; thou sordid slave to Mammon without Wages!"

— Anonymous; George Powell (1658-1714), Publisher

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Date: 1696

"Mine Eyes no sooner saw, but my Heart was in a Flame, it heaves, it beats, it trembles, I'm all over Pulse, and in a perfect Agony."

— Anonymous; George Powell (1658-1714), Publisher

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Date: 1696

"Then let Cupid 's dart, / Now wound your soft heart."

— Anonymous; George Powell (1658-1714), Publisher

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Date: 1696

"Condemned to Passions, captivated by 'em--We are the Monarchs o're all other Creatures, yet Anarchy predominates in us."

— Anonymous; George Powell (1658-1714), Publisher

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Date: 1696

"The Sences in Confederacy raise Rebellion against reason; there now is a Civil War over all this Compound Tabernacle. Pride and Desire disturb the Harmony of Government, endeavouring to undermine the tottering Fabrick, and to hurl all into Chaos and Confusion."

— Anonymous; George Powell (1658-1714), Publisher

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