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Date: Tuesday, November 11, 1735

"Poetical Justice extends only to such as the Law cannot lay hold of, such as are to be tried in Foro Conscientiae, where the Delinquent, being strongly touched by a Resemblance of Himself, may amend."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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Date: 1735

"God gave us Reason as the Stars were giv'n, / Not to discard the Sun, but mark out Heav'n."

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

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"Reason at most, but imitates the Sun, / To each is various, and to All is one"

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

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"And if such dormant Reason bears no fruit, / Dead in the branch, tho' real at the root, / Defect and actual Ignorance are one,"

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

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"True to the clear, unbiast, humble soul, / Which trembling seeks her, as the steel its pole!"

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

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"Thro' the dark Void ev'n gleams of Truth can shoot, / And love of Liberty upheave at root."

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

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"No more the tender seeds unquicken'd lie, / But stretch their form and wait for wings to fly."

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

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"Sensation first, the groundwork of the whole, / Deals ray by ray each image to the soul."

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

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"Thought works and ends, and dares afresh begin, / So whirpools pour out Streams, and suck them in;"

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

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"That Thought romantic Memory detains / In unknown cells and in aereal chains; / Imagination thence her flow'rs translates, / And Fancy emulous of God, creates."

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

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