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 human body they looked on as a temple, the face they read as the mirror of the mind.

From Overbeck by Atkinson, J. Beavington

Let him see them no more, not even in the mirror of the mind.

From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

For the truth does not seem to be a mere picture of the system of things, reflected in the mirror of the mind.

From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper

O softly, O tenderly, the heart now stirs     With desires faint and formless; and, seeking not, I find Quiet thoughts that flash like azure kingfishers     Across the luminous, tranquil mirror of the mind.

From Poems - First Series by Squire, J. C. (John Collings)