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Date: 1728

"I know not why it is, but certainly a Woman is the least liable to play the Fool here; perhaps, the Hurry of Diversions and Company keep the Mind in too perpetual a Motion to let it fix on one Object."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1728

"Soon as the short Delirium past you find, / And Sense regains it's Empire o'er the Mind, / You bless the Hand that eas'd your anxious Cares, / And pour for Brunswick's House incessant Prayers!"

— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)

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Date: 1728

One may lull his raging Thoughts to rest "And calm the Tempest rising in [his] Breast"

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

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Date: 1728

"Go, vain mistaken Man, if you would find / That golden Ore, Contentment of the Mind, / Depart from all these busy Ills of Life /And live exempt from Pride, and Noise and Strife"

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

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"Yet Care, a greater Tyrant, rules your Breast; / You, with a Nod, the suppliant World command, / Yet cannot rule that little Empire, Man."

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

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"Say, to what friendly Aid we owe / Those Gleams that in the Minds fair Mirrour play?"

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

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"From what rich Fountain flow / Those ripening Beams of intellectual Day?"

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

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"By whose fair Pencil is each Image wrought, / That teems to Birth, and burnishes to Thought?"

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

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Date: 1728

Say, "How Fancy every Shape puts on? / How kindling Sparks her Form compose, / And whence the constant-shining Train, / That Mem'ry, or Experience shows?"

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

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Date: 1728

"And whence the constant-shining Train, / That Mem'ry, or Experience shows?"

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

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