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Date: 1633

"If they be two, they are two so / As stiffe twin compasses are two, / Thy soule the fixt foot, makes no show / To move, but doth, if the'other doe."

— Donne, John (1572-1631)

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