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The Renaissance3 quotes
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. — John Milton · 1667O, who can hold a fire in his hand
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
Or wallow naked in December snow
By thinking on fantastic summer’s heat? — William Shakespeare · 1595There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. — William Shakespeare · 1616Classical antiquity1 quote
No man is happy who does not think himself so. — Publilius Syrus · 43 BC