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The Renaissance2 quotes
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet. — William Shakespeare · 1597To gild refinèd gold, to paint the lily…is wasteful and ridiculous excess. — William Shakespeare · 1616New Testament Era1 quote
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. — Jesus · 60