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Date: 1691

"The Flame which Reason rules has Interest in't"

— Mountfort, William (c.1664-1692)

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Date: 1691

"Men have no Windows in their Breast"

— Wilson, John (bap. 1626, d. 1695?)

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Date: 1691

"Be deaf to Flattery; it deludes the Mind, / And oft, when all Arts fail, doth entrance find. / But then's most Danger, we should to 't resign. / When't meets with that Arch-Flatterer within."

— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)

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Date: 1691

The Lord may "bear our Name upon [his] Breast, / Engrave it on [his] Heart"

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

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Date: 1691

"So the bold Artist, that of You would speak / Should Patterns from Celestial Natures take; / And stamp his Soul in an Angelick Mold; Er'e he Your Vertues should attempt to' unfold."

— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)

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Date: 1691

"O set thine Image on my Heart! / O seal it on my Arm!"

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

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Date: 1691

"Dancing, Singing, Swearing, Impudence, / Can make Impressions upon easie sense"

— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)

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Date: 1691

"Afflictions like as fire doth / The Gold rarely refine, / Purge all our Souls, and we thereby / More gloriously may shine."

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

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Date: 1691

"Grace doth our Souls to God unite, / Like glorious Golden Chains."

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

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Date: 1691

"I'm the righter of Wrongs, and undoer of Injuries--Heart of Steel, and Arms of Brass."

— Wilson, John (bap. 1626, d. 1695?)

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