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Date: 1765

"Use makes every Posture familiar to the Body, and every Opinion to the Mind."

— Anonymous

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Date: 1765

"A good Grace is to the Body what good Sense is to the Mind."

— Anonymous

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Date: 1765

"Education is to the Mind what Cleanliness is to the Body; the Beauties of the one, as well as the other, are blemish'd, if not totally lost by Neglect."

— Anonymous

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Date: 1765

"As Virtue, says Plato, is the Health of a strong and vigorous Mind, so Vice is the Disease of weak and imperfect one; and 'tis the Habitude which renders either of a Piece with the Soul, and becomes a kind of second Nature."

— Anonymous

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Date: 1765

"But when the Soul is stark blind in itself, Knowledge can be of no Use to direct it."

— Anonymous

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Date: 1771

"That is, let not great examples, or authorities, browbeat they reason into too great a diffidence fo thyself: thyself so reverence, as to prefer the native growth of thy own mind to the richest import from abroad; such borrowed riches make us poor."

— Author Unknown

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Date: 1784

"The Author of this little Essay, very philanthropically, but he fears, very vainly, wishes, that some much abler Chymist of this kind than himself, could once compose and exhibit such an attractive, and palatable preservative against all infection of the mind, as might be greedily purchased and ...

— Anonymous

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Date: 1796

"Fy! you are horrid people! we lacerate our bodies; you, your souls.---We believe that the scars on our faces add to our beauty; you consider your vices as ornaments."

— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)

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Date: 1796

"None! You cannot wash my face white, or I his conscience."

— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)

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Date: 1800

"I'll have a score of painters set to work, and hang my portrait up in every chamber through which you pass, 'till the detested image of him whose presence taints the genial air shall be so everlastingly impress'd on your mind's eye, in darkness you shall see it; in solitude, in sleep, I still wi...

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811); Maria Geisweiler (fl.1799); Kotzebue (1761-1819)

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