15th century

The Cheat (Fable 55)

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~Aesop, 1480~

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Aesop relating his fables. NYPL Digital Collections.

A poor man, being very ill and getting worse, promised the gods to sacrifice to them one hundred oxen if they saved him from death. Continue reading →

Death, An Appointment

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To love here on Earth,

Is indeed to prepare the way for sorrow,

for all who love must be parted,

by the great appointment.

~ From Sermons of Consolation by F.W. P. Greenwood, 1847 ~

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Wenzel von Olmutz after Master of the Housebook, The Lovers, c. 1490, engraving, Rosenwald Collection