The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
Milton: Paradise Lost, book i. line 253.
[218:4] The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.—Pliny: Natural History, book vii. chap. i.
Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.—Johnson (1777).
There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.—Montaigne: Of the Resemblance of Children to their Fathers, book i. chap. xxxvii.
Oh, could you view the melody
Of every grace