mirror of the mind

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If the face is the mirror of the mind, as Saint Jerome observed, then what happens when the face is disfigured by the savagery of war?

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2022

The room was like a mirror of the mind of Berselius, that strange mind in which the savage dwelt with the civilized man, and the man of valour by the side of the philosopher.

From The Pools of Silence by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)

As when in ocean sinks the orb of day, Long on the wave reflected lustres play; Thy temper'd gleams of happiness resign'd Glance on the darken'd mirror of the mind.

From Poems by Rogers, Samuel

Upon the mirror of the mind her breath ��Is like a cloud, to hide the fading trace ��Of that dear smile, of that remembered face, Whose presence were the joy and pang of death.

From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry

Here sleeps what once was beauty, once was grace; Grace, that with tenderness and sense combined To form that harmony of soul and face, Where brainy shines the mirror of the mind.

From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various