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Date: September 1, 1759.

" Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away, and which new images are striving to obliterate."

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

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Date: September 1, 1759.

"The incursions of troublesome thoughts are often violent and importunate; and it is not easy to a mind accustomed to their inroads to expel them immediately by putting better images into motion; but this enemy of quiet is above all others weakened by every defeat; the reflection which has been o...

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

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Date: 1762

"And stamp Thine image on my breast, / And fill my emptied heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Assure me, Lord, that mine Thou art, / And stamp forgiveness on my heart;"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"With strongest confidence assert / The secret of the Lord reveal'd, / The image stamp'd upon your heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"And stamps forgiveness on our hearts."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Stamp Thine image on my heart, / And join me to Thy Son"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Stamp Thy whole image on my breast,"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Absorb whate'er is I in Thine, / And stamp the image on our heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Author of my faith Thou art, / Stamping pardon on my heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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