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

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

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

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)

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 Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton)