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Date: 1746

"All raving Passions soon wou'd be supprest" is man cou'd "but thro' eternity pervade"

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

"Of all the passions--that the mind enslave,/ Tarnish the glory of the truly brave,/ The meanest this--of social love the pest, / The worst of Fiends--in fairest colours drest."

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

"Soon as thy heart did feel / The pardon-stamping seal"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1746

" Justify us by Thy right, / And stamp us with Thy seal"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1746

"His bleeding love 'tis Thine to seal / With pardon on the contrite heart:"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1746

"As the grave sage, who studies to explore, / Some cause phaenonimous--unknown before, / With patience waits--revolving in his mind / The vast events--attending human kind, / Till some propitious star his soul inspires, / And gives the great solution he requires."

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746, 1749

"For Peace and War succeed by Turns in Love, / And while tempestuous these Emotions roll, / And float with blind Disorder in the Soul."

— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)

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Date: 1747

"Since here defective, Heaven be so kind / With never-fading charms to dress my mind"

— Teft, Elizabeth (fl. 1741-7)

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Date: 1747

The soul may let in "the baneful poison of repeated sin" as the snuff-taker does snuff

— Teft, Elizabeth (fl. 1741-7)

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Date: 1747

Jealousy "inly gnaws the secret heart"

— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

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