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Date: 1762

"'Till then [death], the Muse essays the tuneful Art, / To fix her moral Lesson on thy Heart, / Illume thy Soul with Virtue's brightest Flame, / And point it to that Heav'n from whence it came."

— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)

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Date: w. c. 1762, 1850

"For love, I fear, corrupts the judge within."

— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)

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Date: September 1762; 1774

"Some vices must to all appear / As constitutional as Fear; / And every Moralist will find / A ruling passion in the mind."

— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)

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Date: September 1762; 1774

"And every Moralist will find / A ruling passion in the mind: / Which, tho' pent up and barricado'd / Like winds, where Æolus bravado'd; / Like them, will sally from their den, / And raise a tempest now and then; / Unhinge dame Prudence from her plan, / And ruffle all the world of man."

— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)

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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

"I cannot reach that heavenly shore, / The gusts of passion rise / So fierce, so high the billows roll, / And on this long afflicted soul / So huge a tempest lies"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Yet with the mind of Jesus steel'd / He cannot to entreaties yield"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"The true heavenly David give, / The just and loving One, / After Thine own heart, to live, / And fix in us His throne."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Come, and 'stablish in my heart / Thine everlasting throne."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

God may "Fix in every heart of man / [His] everlasting throne"

— 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.