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Date: 1762

"Cette doctrine, venant de Dieu, doit porter le sacré caractère de la Divinité; non seulement elle doit nous éclaircir les idées confuses que le raisonnement en trace dans notre esprit, mais elle doit aussi nous proposer un culte, une morale & des maximes convenables aux attributs par lesquels se...

— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

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Date: 1762

"Je viens, mon jeune ami, de vous réciter de bouche ma profession de foi telle que Dieu la lit dans mon coeur."

— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

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Date: 1760-1761, 1762

"Oh thou possessor of heavenly wisdom, would be this separation, this immeasurable distance from my friends, were I not able thus to delineate my heart upon paper, and to send thee daily a map of my mind."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

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Date: 1760-1761, 1762

"Here it was that I exulted in my success; no blot, no stain, appeared on any part of the faithful mirror. As when the large, unwritten page presents its snowy spotless bosom to the writer's hand; so appeared the glass to my view."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

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Date: 1761-1762

"Coming, as most boys do, a rasa tabula to the university, and believing (his country education teaching him no better) that all human and divine knowledge was to be had there, he quickly fell into the then prevailing notions of the high and independent powers of the clergy."

— Author Unknown

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Date: 1762

"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Lord, with Thy love's acutest dart / Engrave Thy name upon my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Engrave her doom upon my heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find, / Begotten from above"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"His Spirit send into our hearts, / Engraving on our inward parts / The living law of holiest love"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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