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Date: 1739

"Thy wounds upon my heart impress, / Nor [a]ught shall the loved stamp efface"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1742

"My Ethiop soul shall change her skin; / Redeem'd from all iniquity."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1742

"But Thou canst wash the leper clean, / The stone to flesh convert, / Canst make the Ethiop change his skin, / And purify my heart ."

— Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)

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Date: 1767

"The Spirit breathed His life into / Our animated clay, / And He begets our souls anew, / And seals us to that day"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"How then should matron Mind, with filial fear, / Judge all the embryo thoughts engender'd there"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

One may feel "The sateless longings of a famish'd Soul!"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Mind, far more voracious [than the body], reads, and reads, / Still growing greedier whilst it fonder feeds"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Man's intellectual Appetite, in Youth, / Yearns more intense while banqueting on Truth"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Intellect, athirst, intenser thinks, / And finds the drought increasing whilst it drinks"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

Ideas must circulate "Or all their broods, prohibited, to hide, / Become abortive, or, if born, destroy'd;"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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