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Date: 1741

"Poor Mind, who heard all with extreme moderation, / Thought it now time to speak, and make her allegation: / ''Tis I that, methinks, have most cause to complain, / Who am cramped and confined like a slave in a chain.'"

— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)

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Date: 1741

" One Stamp of Mind their very Forms express'd, / Same shap'd, like fac'd, like manner'd, and same drest"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

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Date: 1741

"He blinds the Wise, gives Eye-sight to the Blind; / And moulds and stamps anew the Lover's Mind"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

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Date: 1741

"Whether from mutual Passion springs the Flame, / Or Minds congenial stamp the vital Seeds"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

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Date: 1741

"But such is the nature of the human mind, that it always lays hold on every mind that approaches it; and as it is wonderfully fortified by an unanimity of sentiments, so is it shocked and disturbed by any contrariety."

— Hume, David (1711-1776)

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Date: 1741

"'I've a friend,' answers Mind, 'who, though slow, is yet sure, / And will rid me at last of your insolent power: / Will knock down your walls, the whole fabric demolish, / And at once your strong holds and my slavery abolish: / And while in your dust your dull ruins decay, / I'll snap off my cha...

— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)

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Date: 1741

"Nor useless Hints to Him impart, / Who knows so well to cast the Heart / In Virtue's genuine Mould."

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

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Date: 1741

"But when Studentio had once persuaded his Mind to tie itself down to this Method which I have prescribed, he sensibly gain'd an admirable Facility to read, and judge of what he read, by his daily Practice of it, and the Man made large Advances in the Pursuit of Truth; while Plumbinus and Plumeo ...

— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

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Date: 1741

"Their Understandings are hereby cooped up in narrow Bounds, so that they never look abroad into other Provinces of the intellectual World, which are more beautiful perhaps and more fruitful than their own."

— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

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Date: 1741

"The ample Mind takes a Survey of several objects with one Glance, keeps them all within Sight and present to the Soul, that they may be compared together in their mutual Respects; it forms just Judgments, and it draws proper Inferences from this Comparison even to a great Length of Argument and ...

— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

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