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Date: 1736

"Physicians cannot dose away [men's] Souls."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1736

"Upon the whole, then, our organs of sense and our limbs are certainly instruments which the living persons, ourselves, make use of to perceive and move with: there is not any probability that they are any more; nor consequently, that we have any other kind of relation to them, that what we may h...

— Butler, Joseph (1692-1752)

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Date: 1736

"Each keeps the other's Image in his Breast, / As Wax preserves the Form a Seal imprest."

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

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Date: 1736

"Weighty cares may "the pensive Mind invade"

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

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Date: 1736, 1803

Truth has "a window in her naked breast"

— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)

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Date: 1736

"PAULTONS affords me next a kind Retreat, / Where crowding Joys my grateful Heart dilate"

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

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Date: 1736

"A thousand Pleasures crowd into his Breast."

— Fitzgerald, Thomas (1695-1752)

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Date: 1736

"It is the Opinion of a late ingenious Philosopher of our own Nation [Mr. Locke], and I think mankind are generally come into the same Way of thinking, 'That the Soul of Man is at first but a Tabula rasa, a Kind of fair unwritten Paper, till it has receieved Impressions form without, and i...

— Bernard, Thomas (1684/5-1755)

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Date: 1736

"And by their Means it becomes a delightful Store-house of the richest Truth and most valuable Knowledge."

— Bernard, Thomas (1684/5-1755)

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Date: 1736

"Reason is the great Perfection of human Nature; but, like a Diamond, it is naturally rough, till Education polish it and set it well. Without that, it usually degenerates into Sottishness and Sensuality, as we see in the untaught and uncivilized Part of Mankind."

— Bernard, Thomas (1684/5-1755)

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