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Date: 1590?, 1623

"I do desire thee, even from a heart / As full of sorrows as the sea of sands / To bear me company and go with me."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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Date: 1594

"Well, I will lock his counsel in my breast / And what I do imagine, let that rest."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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Date: 1594

"Till we grow to some ripeness of years, the soul of man doth only store itself with conceits of things of inferior and more open quality, which afterwards do serve as instruments unto that which is greater; in the meanwhile above the reach of meaner creatures it ascendeth not."

— Hooker, Richard (1554-1600)

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Date: 1597

"I pray thee, peace! My soul is full of sorrow."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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Date: 1600

"And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart / And take her hearing prisoner with the force / And strong encounter of my amorous tale."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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Date: 1600

"I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart. But the saying is true: 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.'"

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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Date: 1600

"But see, thy fault France hath in thee found out: / A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills / With treacherous crowns."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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Date: 1602

"O thou whose breast, I, even this little cantle, / Is counsells capcase, prudences portmantle."

— Anonymous

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Date: w. c. 90, trans. 1611

"A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things."

— Matthew the Evangelist

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Date: w. c. 90, trans. 1611

"And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart."

— Luke the Evangelist (d. c. 84)

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