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Date: 1762

" Far from the crowd / Of passions loud, / Thyself to me discover"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Jesus, Thou that image art, / Seal Thy name upon my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1765

"All my Sins destroy, devour, / And all my Soul transform: / Now apply Thy Spirit's Seal; / O come quickly from above, / Empty me of Self, and fill / With all the Life of Love."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1765

"You saw what heart-religion meant [...] true religion is not a negative or an external thing; but the life of God in the soul of man; the image of God stamped upon the heart."

— Wesley, John (1703-1791)

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Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

The "Action and Reaction" of different Estates "produces that general and systematic Controul which, like Conscience, pervades and superintends the Whole, checking and prohibiting Evil from every Part of the Constitution"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

A beloved may be a "Regent within" and "sit throned in [a lover's] Heart"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

An affection may get "an habitual Empire in the Mind"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

There are men as variable as the wind, whose present temper it is as easy to decipher as it is to consult a weather cock

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

"Edward could only win your Cities, but Philippa conquers Hearts"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

"O, my Fanny, he cried, my most noble, my adorable Creature! what a Combat have you fought, what a Conquest have you gained, of Grace over Nature, of Virtue against Passion!"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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