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Date: 1611

"If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out."

— Author Unknown

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Date: 1611

"My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly"

— Author Unknown

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Date: 1611

"For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart."

— Author Unknown

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Date: 1611

"Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men."

— Author Unknown

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Date: 1611

"O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved."

— Author Unknown

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Date: 1611

"My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me"

— Author Unknown

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Date: 1611

"Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart."

— Author Unknown

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Date: 1611

"As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things"

— Author Unknown

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Date: w. c. 54-8, trans. 1611

"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."

— Paul of Tarsus (b.c. 10, d.c. 67)

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Date: 1612

"Another part became the well of sense, / The tender well-arm'd feeling brain, from whence / Those sinewy strings, which do our bodies tie, / Are ravelled out, and fast there by one end, / Did this soul limbs, these limbs a soul attend."

— Donne, John (1572-1631)

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