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Date: 1684

"Soft-panting Heart: scarce knows what Fonder Guest / Might steal that way into her Virgin-Brest."

— Harington, John (1627-1700)

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Date: 1684

"My lady knows t' a tittle what there's in ye; / No passing your gilt shilling for a guinea."

— Dryden, John (1631-1700)

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Date: 1685

One's thoughts and joys may be "all pack'd up and gone"

— Mason, John (1646?-1694)

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Date: 1685

The Lord may "bear my Name upon [his] Breast, / Engrave it on [his] Heart"

— Mason, John (1646?-1694)

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Date: 1685

One may bear God's "Image and Inscription" upon his heart

— Mason, John (1646?-1694)

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Date: 1685

"O Seal mine Image on thy Heart, / O Seal it on thy Arm"

— Mason, John (1646?-1694)

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Date: 1685

"One would have thought such melting Words / Should break an Heart of Steel."

— Mason, John (1646?-1694)

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Date: 1685

A "heaven-born mind" may have "no dross to purge from [its] rich ore"

— Dryden, John (1631-1700)

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Date: 1685

"Nor can thy soul a fairer mansion find, / Than was the beauteous frame she left behind"

— Dryden, John (1631-1700)

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Date: 1685

"The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made: / Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, / As they draw near to their eternal home"

— Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)

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