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Date: 1868

"The truth we in Thy name assert, / And our report Thy Spirit seals / In pardon on the faithful heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"This unbelief remove, / And pardon on my conscience seal"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"Whose grace the pardon did bestow / And seal'd it on my conscience sure"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"Thou cam'st to execute His will, / The souls peculiarly Thine own / To bless, and sanctify, and seal"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"And seal our souls for ever Thine"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1869

One's immortal deeds may be "Engrav'd ... / On ev'ry heart in this braid land"

— Oliphant, Carolina, Lady Nairne (1766-1845)

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Date: 1869

On a tree's "fair stem were mony names, which now nae mair I see, / But they're engraven on my heart--forgot they ne'er can be!"

— Oliphant, Carolina, Lady Nairne (1766-1845)

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Date: April 26 1870

"Why, as a volume seldom read / Being opened halfway shuts again, / So might the pages of her brain / Be parted at such words, and thence / Close back upon the dusty sense."

— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

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Date: 1890

"We noticed smallest things, / Things overlooked before, / By this great light upon our  minds / Italicized, as 't were."

— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

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Date: 1900

"Then from this hour deep on my heart engraved / Be all my duty needful."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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