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Date: 1768

A mirror is "mistress of the art, / Which conquers and secures a heart"

— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)

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Date: 1768

Fable is a mirror in which an image of the mind may be presented

— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)

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Date: 1768

"The deep Philsopher who turns mankind / Quite inside outwards, and dissects the mind, / Wou'd look but whimsical and strangely out, / To grudge some Quack his treatise on the gout."

— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)

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Date: 1769

"But conscious that a mind by virtue steel'd, / To no impression of distress will yield."

— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)

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