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Date: 1792

"I should be a pitiful bungler indeed, if I knew not yet how to tear a son from the heart of his father, were they link'd together with chains of iron."

— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)

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Date: 1792

"Men!--Men! false! treacherous crocodiles! Your eyes are water! your hearts are iron!"

— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)

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Date: 1792

"The tears, the supplications of his father, never reach'd his iron heart.-- "

— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)

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Date: 1792

"But is it not most unjust --nay cruel, to condemn a man because he is so unfortunate as to be the victim of disease? May not a great soul inhabit a foul carcase?"

— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)

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Date: w. 1791-2

"But, sent from God, his presence leaves, / To gather home his ripen'd sheaves, / To call encumber'd souls away / From fleshly bonds to boundless day, / (As when the winged hours excite, / And summon forth the morning-light) / And each to convoy to her place / Before the Eternal Father's face."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1795, 1796

The "anvil of gnawing conscience is never cool"

— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

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Date: 1795, 1796

The "contemplative hour must sometimes exist to a mind of your stamp"

— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

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Date: 1795, 1796

"Let this mark of elasticity of mind be stamped on the annals of truth"

— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

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Date: 1795, 1796

"Do not stamp upon your heart a calumny which it does not deserve"

— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

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Date: 1795, 1796

"But, hear, Louisa--a thought, just now, vast and immense as my own boundless passion, crowds on my troubled mind."

— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

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