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Date: 1755

"Love is by fancy led about"

— Granville [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"Whether it be a divine revelation or no, reason must judge, which can never permit the mind to reject a greater evidence to embrace what is less evident."

— Locke [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"There are so many ways of fallacy, such arts of giving colours, appearances and resemblances by this court-dresser, the fancy"

— Locke [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"Who has a breast so pure,/ But some uncleanly apprehensions/ Keep leets and law days, and in sessions sit,/ With meditations lawful"

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"Blind as the Cyclops, and blind as he, / They own'd a lawless savage liberty, / Like that our painted ancestors so priz'd, / Ere empire's arts their breasts had civiliz'd."

— Dryden [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

The faculties of mind with which man is endowed are witness to God's being

— Locke [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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