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Date: 1751

The hand one writes may be "like her mind, solid and above all flourish"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1751

"I proceeded therefore--That I loved Familiar-letter-writing, as I had more than once told her, above all the species of writing: It was writing from the heart (without the fetters prescribed by method or study) as the very word 'Cor-respondence' implied"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1762

"Lord, with Thy love's acutest dart / Engrave Thy name upon my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Engrave her doom upon my heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find, / Begotten from above"

— 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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Date: 1762

" I wait the reconciling kiss, / Which seals in purity and peace / My pardon on my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

" Peace by the Spirit's signet seal'd / On every faithful heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"With patience they the fire endure, / And thus express the Spirit's seal, / And witness thus, their hearts are pure."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"And stamp'd with Thy good Spirit's seal, / I love Thee, Lord, with all 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.