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Date: 1694

The body, like a grasshopper that has grown old, may cast off his skin and "a lively new shrill insect will come forth of it"

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

The body may be resurrected, like "a dying and sluggish Catterpiller" that becomes a lively painted Butterfly.

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

The body may be resurrected, like an ant that becomes a "winged fly."

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

The body may be resurrected, like the Silk-worm, which "after many days, seeming dead and motionless, becomes a Butterfly."

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: 1694

"But above all, the Phaenix , that the Learned Lactantius writes of, may put us in mind, if not confirm to us the Resurrection, for after she has lived in the Arabian Fields (as some affirm) about 600 Years, and finding her self wasted with Age and Infirmity, she gathers the ...

— Aristotle [pseud.]

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Date: Wednesday, June 18, 1712

"These Motions are given us with our Being, they are little Spirits that are born and dye with us; to some they are mild, easie, and gentle, to others wayward and unruly, yet never too strong for the Reins of Reason and the Guidance of Judgment."

— Anonymous

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Date: Wednesday, June 18, 1712

"We may generally observe a pretty nice Proportion between the Strength of Reason and Passion; the greatest Genius's have commonly the strongest Affections, as on the other hand, the weaker Understandings have generally the weaker Passions; and 'tis fit the Fury of the Coursers should not be too ...

— Anonymous

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Date: 1662, 1762

"Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken, and we are delivered."

— The Church of England

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Date: October, 1784

"They who take self-love for their guide, ride in the paths of partiality, on the horse of adulation, to the judge of falsehood; but he who prefers the mandate of reason, rides in the way of probability on the courser of prudence."

— Anonymous

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