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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

Very few of us are what we seem.