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Date: 1746

Self-love may expand "like the generous vine" so that "Another's joy becomes as full as thine"

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

"As, from the center of the lamp of day, / Beams after beams-diffusive sweetly play" so flows sweet joy from "the passions of the generous mind"

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

Rebellion may lurk in the "faithless heart"

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

The rays of beauties may "wound the bleeding heart" and make "useless the medicable art"

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

The "heart of man" may be probed with the Muse's microscope

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

The soul may have "sallies, shifts, and eddies" that roll "like a troubled ocean"

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

Man may hold "a heart of stone"

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

"One tyrant passion rules the soul of man"

— Ruffhead, James

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The "light of reason's ray" may be extinguished

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

The soul may be poured forth in praise

— Ruffhead, James

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