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Date: 1716

"But the greatest imperfection is in our inward sight, that is, to be Ghosts unto our own Eyes, and while we are so sharpsighted as to look thorough others, to be invisible to our selves; for the inward Eyes are more fallacious than the outward."

— Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)

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Date: 1716

"Let thy Studies [he writes] be as free as thy Thoughts and Contemplations: but fly not only upon the wings of Imagination."

— Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)

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Date: 1716

"Joyn Sense and Reason, and Experiment unto Speculation, and so give life unto Embryon Truths, and Verities yet in their Chaos"

— Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)

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Date: 1716

"Conscience only, that can see without Light, sits in the Areopagy and dark Tribunal of our Hearts, surveying our Thoughts and condemning their obliquities."

— Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)

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