How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
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Search results for Renaissance (approx. 14th to 17th century)
473 allegories found
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I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
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Men at some time are masters of their fates.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
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What light through yonder window breaks?
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I am constant as the northern star.
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I must be cruel only to be kind; thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
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Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
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Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
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