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Date: 1868

"And let our souls the kiss receive / Which seals our inward peace."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

One may present to Jesus "The myrrh of passions mortified, / The gold of charity" and "The incense sweet of humble prayer"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"And doth even now His peace impart, / And stamps His image on my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

God's "coming from above" may stamp his image on one's heart

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: April 26 1870

"Enough to throw one's thoughts in heaps / Of doubt and horror,—what to say / Or think,—this awful secret sway, / The potter's power over the clay!"

— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

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Date: April 26 1870

"Between the threads fine fumes arise / And shape their pictures in the brain."

— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

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Date: 1874

"Earth thus I stamp thy bosom rouse the earthquake from his den"

— Blake, William (1757-1827)

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Date: 1890

"Imps in eager caucus / Raffle for my  soul."

— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

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Date: 1890

"I've known her from an ample nation / Choose one; / Then close the valves of her attention / Like stone."

— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

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Date: 1890

"The sweeping up the heart, / And putting love away / We shall not want to use again / Until eternity."

— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

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