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Date: 1734, 1753

"Souls have no sexes; and if minds agree, / Parting is dying, to set fancy free."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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Date: 1734, 1753

"Oh! 'tis too delicate!--'tis falsely nice, / To bar the heart against the mind's advice."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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Date: 1734, 1753

"Bold, in your guarded strength, your heart unbind, / And, to be safe--suppose yourself all mind."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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"Love's generous warmth does reason's pow'r display, / And fills desire, as light embodies day."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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Date: 1734

"'Tis in the ruling Passion: there alone, / The wild are constant, and the cunning known, / The fool consistent, and the false sincere; / Priests, Princes, Women, no dissemblers here."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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"Clodio, the Scorn and Wonder of our days, / Whose ruling passion was the Lust of Praise."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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"And you! brave Cobham, to the latest breath, / Shall feel your ruling Passion strong in death."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1734

"Grant but as many sorts of mind, as Moss."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1734

"Tis Education forms the vulgar mind: / Just as the Twig is bent, the Tree's inclin'd."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1734

"All Manners take a tincture from our own, / Or come discolour'd thro' our Passions shown."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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