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Date: 1758

"It is scandalous, that he who sweetens his Drink by the Gifts of the Bees, should, by Vice, embitter Reason, the Gift of the Gods."

— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)

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Date: 1758

"They who have a good Constitution of Body, support Heats and Colds: and so they, who have a right Constitution of Soul, bear [the Attacks of] Anger, and Grief, and immoderate Joy, and the other Passions."

— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)

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Date: 1758

"It is more necessary for the Soul to be cured, than the Body: for it is better to die, than to live ill."

— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)

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Date: 1759

"Words are but Pictures, tru or False Designd / To Draw the Lines, and Features of the Minde"

— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)

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Date: 1759

"Whence Multitudes of reverend Men and Critics / Have got a kind of intellectual Rickets, / And by th'immoderate Excess of Study / Have found the sickly Head t'outgrow the Body.

— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)

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