How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
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Search results for Late Antiquity (4th-5th centuries AD)
251 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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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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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
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