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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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Date: 1762

"Stamp Thy whole image on my breast,"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

" I wait the reconciling kiss, / Which seals in purity and peace / My pardon on my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"And make Thy pardoning mercy known, / And seal it on my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Seal the promise on my heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1764, 1773

"Beyond the frantic rage / Of conq'ring heroes brave, the female mind, / When steel'd by love, in love's most horrid way / Beholds not danger, or beholding scorns"

— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)

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Date: 1764, 1773

"Heav'n search my soul, and if thro' all its cells / Lurk the pernicious drop of pois'nous guile; / Full on my fenceless head its phial'd wrath / May fate exhaust"

— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)

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Date: 1766

"Love laugh'd, and, sure of conquest, wing'd a dart / Unerring, to her undefended heart."

— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)

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Date: 1767

"Man in this world, Sir, may be compared to a hackney-coach upon a stand; continually subject to be drawn by his unruly appetites, on one foolish jaunt or another; but you will say, if his appetites are horses, which as it were drag him along, reason is the coachman to rule those horses--But, Sir...

— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)

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Date: 1767

"Stamp the pardon on our hearts"

— 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.