mirror of the mind
Example Sentences
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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
And Thomson says:— "If she, whom I implore, Urania, deign With euphrasy to purge away the mists, Which, humid, dim the mirror of the mind."
From The Folk-lore of Plants by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer
The body's shapely mould Attests the Maker's art, that in the face, The mirror of the mind, doth best appear.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
The human body they looked on as a temple, the face they read as the mirror of the mind.
From Overbeck by J. Beavington Atkinson
Bodily suffering clouds the brain and distorts the images formed on the mirror of the mind.
From The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion by James Stalker
