This benign nature so provides that over all the world you find something to imitate.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Art Nature

Author

Leonardo da Vinci

Source

Journals of Leonardo da Vinci

Medium

Personal journal

Language

Italian or Latin

Time

1519 1510s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Occupation

Painter Artist

From

Italy Europe

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Citation

Da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. c. 1519.

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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
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I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
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Source
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Medium
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Statement Type
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Language
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 130, I. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 130.