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HAMLET: For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 268ff (2.2.268) (c. 1600)
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Nothing is good or bad but by Comparison.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, #3666 (1732)
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Richard Cumberland (1732-1811) English dramatist and civil servant.
The Observer (1788)
 
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Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
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Quoted in Laurence J. Peter, Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1979).
 
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Imitate what is good wheresoever thou findest it, though among Turks, Jews, Pagans, or even Papists. And abominate Evil, though in thy nearest Relation.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, # 780 (1725)
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