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Date: 1740

An image may reign fresh and forever in the mind

— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

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Date: 1740

"The quiet of Our mind destroys, / Or with a full spring-tide of joys, / Or a dead-ebb of grief. "

— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

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Date: 1740

For a wise and virtuous king "Reason alone his upright judgement guides"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

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Date: 1740

"A Heart by Kindness only gain'd, / Will a dear Conquest prove"

— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)

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Date: 1740

" My Tongue has slipp'd, and quite deceiv'd my Heart, / That melts like Wax before your hottest Anger"

— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)

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Date: 1740

"In vain with formal Laws we fence it round; Love, swift as Thought, impatient, leaps the Bound,"

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

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Date: 1740

"Not the most tempting Charms of Wit, or Worth, / Most graceful Forms, or dazling Shew of Greatness, / Can make Impression on a Mind like her's"

— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)

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Date: 1740

"Our Tears and Grief will soften their hard Hearts, / Fit to receive Impression from our Words."

— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)

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Date: 1740

"This, of all Vice, does most debase the Mind, / Gold is itself th'Allay to Human-kind."

— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)

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Date: 1740

"Savage their nature, and their hearts of stone; / Their houses brass, of brass the warlike blade"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

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