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Date: 1672?

"Our Hearts are Paper, Beauty is the Pen, / Which writes our Loves, and blots 'em out agen"

— Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701)

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Date: 1707

"There [in a softer mind] shall his sacred spirit dwell, / And deep engrave his law, / And every motion of our souls / To swift obedience draw."

— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

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Date: 1741

" The universal pardon's past; / O seal it on my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

" I wait the reconciling kiss, / Which seals in purity and peace / My pardon on my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"And stamp'd with Thy good Spirit's seal, / I love Thee, Lord, with all my heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1789

"[T]he important overthrow of the common enemy of our religious liberty ... must be engraven on our hearts in the very deepest characters of gratitude and praise"

— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)

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