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Date: 1838

"Although we may have fondly loved them [the dead], and may hallow the memory of their good qualities, we cannot always summon their image before us, and by the power of conception gaze on their features, and listen to their voice; but I venture to express my conviction, that no one who has been ...

— Gurney, Joseph John (1788-1847)

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Date: w. 1821, 1840

"But whilst the sceptic destroys gross superstitions, let him spare to deface, as some of the French writers have defaced, the eternal truths charactered upon the imaginations of men."

— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)

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Date: 1852

"Give me thy hand, and hush awhile, / And turn those limpid eyes on mine, / And let me read there, love! thy inmost soul."

— Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)

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Date: 1868

"The pardon Thou hast bought for me, / Engrave it on my heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"Saviour, Thy Spirit's power exert, / To seal my pardon on my heart,"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"When He hath begun our cure, / Seal'd the pardon on our heart,"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"The gospel-faith Divine impart, / Which seals my pardon on my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"Jesus by His Spirit's power / Fuller confidence imparts, / Gives us what He gave before, / Seals the pardon on our hearts"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"Repeating on our hearts He seals, / The truths in their epistles taught"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"The truth we in Thy name assert, / And our report Thy Spirit seals / In pardon on the faithful 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.