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Date: 1735

"Impenetrable Courage steels his manly Breast"

— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)

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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: 1737

"So, from the narrow Limits of the Heart, / The active Soul does vig'rous Life impart / To all the Limbs: it's Sway the Members own, / And wide it's Empire spreads around it's Throne."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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Date: 1737

"Regard thy Powers, O Man! nor heed thy Size: / In piercing Reason thy Advantage lies; / Reason that conquers all, and rules the Skies."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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Date: 1737

"Unless the Mind be purg'd, what Storms arise!"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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Date: 1737

"The Man a nobler Empire gains, / That his own craving Will restrains, / Than he whose Sword and wide Command / Join distant Spain and Lybia's Land."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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Date: 1737

"Alas! by diff'rent Passions I'm oppress'd! / Fierce Love and Hate contend within my Breast."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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Date: 1737

"Souls for ever live: / But often their old Habitations leave, / To dwell in new; which them, as Guests, receive."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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Date: 1737

"As pliant Wax each new Impression takes, / Fixt to no Form, but still the Old forsakes, / Yet is the same: so Souls the same abide, / Tho' various Figures their Reception hide."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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Date: 1737

"Brave Souls when loos'd from this ignoble Chain / Of Clay, and sent to their own Heav'n again, / From Earth's gross Orb on Virtue's Pinions rise / In Æther wanton, and enjoy the Skies."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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