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Date: 1762

"All pow’rful Grace, exert thy gentle Sway, / And teach my rebel Passions to obey: / Lest lurking Folly with insidious Art / Regain my volatile inconstant Heart."

— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)

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Date: w. c. 1762, 1850

"For love, I fear, corrupts the judge within."

— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)

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Date: September 1762; 1774

"Some vices must to all appear / As constitutional as Fear; / And every Moralist will find / A ruling passion in the mind."

— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)

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Date: 1762

"The true heavenly David give, / The just and loving One, / After Thine own heart, to live, / And fix in us His throne."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Come, and 'stablish in my heart / Thine everlasting throne."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

God may "Fix in every heart of man / [His] everlasting throne"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Come, and erect Thy throne / Eternal in my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

God may "reign in all our hearts alone."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"The holy, high, and lofty One / Shall make my heart His earthly throne"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"His Spirit send into our hearts, / Engraving on our inward parts / The living law of holiest love"

— 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.