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Date: 1736, 1737, 1734-1741

"We must examine every thing, as if we were a tabula rasa."

— Bayle, Pierre (1647-1706); Anonymous

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Date: 1755

The heart may follow the "light of sound and sincere judgment, without either cloud of prejudice or mist of passion"

— Hooker [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

God himself is the soul's eternal food

— Davies [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"They say this town is full of cozenage, / Drug-working sorcerers that change the mind; / Soul-killing witches that deform the body; / And many such like libertines of sin."

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"That souls of animals infuse themselves / Into the trunks of men"

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

Thou sun of this great world both eye and soul

— Milton [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul"

— Milton [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"The only true zeal is that which is guided by a good light in the head"

— Spratt [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"Prest with heart corroding grief and years, / To the gay court a rural shed prefers."

— Pope [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold, / A lad of life, and imp of fame."

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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