{"quotes":[{"text":"Whose little boy are you?","author":"James Baldwin","tags":["african-american","black","church","coming-of-age","epiphany","god","harlem","institution","james-baldwin","racism","religion","renaissance","youth"],"id":8823,"author_id":"James+Baldwin"},{"text":"[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.","author":"Thomas More","tags":["clothing","fashion","humorous","renaissance"],"id":33711,"author_id":"Thomas+More"},{"text":"In Venice, things not always as they first appear. I contemplate this observation from my post on the aft deck of one of Master Fumagalli’s gondolas, taking in the panorama of bridges, domes, bell towers, and quaysides of my native city. I row into the neck of the Grand Canal, and, one by one, the reflection of each colorful façade appears, only to dissipate into wavering, shimmering shards under my oar.","author":"Laura Morelli","tags":["coming-of-age","gondola","historical-fiction","italy","renaissance","venice"],"id":35826,"author_id":"Laura+Morelli"},{"text":"I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["emergence","healing","renaissance","shower"],"id":38358,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"Zeal, if it be well ordered, is most beautiful in a Christian; but if not, it is a thing of exceeding great danger: as fire in moderation is most comfortable, but in extremity most fearful.","author":"Nehemiah Rogers","tags":["christianity","church","fellowship","moderation","reformation","religion","renaissance","wisdom"],"id":40535,"author_id":"Nehemiah+Rogers"},{"text":"We have given to thee, Adam, no fixed seat, no form of thy own, no gift peculiarly thine, that thou mayest feel as thine own, have as thine own, possess as thine own, the seat, the form, the gifts which thou thyself shalt desire. A limited nature in other creatures is confined within the laws written down by Us. In conformity with thy free judgment, in whose hands I have placed thee, thou art confined by no bounds; and thou will fix the limits of nature for thyself. I have placed thee at the centre of the world, that from there thou mayest more conveniently look around and see whatsoever is in the world. Neither heavenly nor earthly, neither mortal nor immortal have We made thee. Thou, like a judge appointed for being honourable, art the molder and maker of thyself.","author":"Giovanni Pico della Mirandola","tags":["creation","epimetheus","humanism","man","mythology","renaissance"],"id":44052,"author_id":"Giovanni+Pico+della+Mirandola"},{"text":"PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams:\tThe shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;.","author":"Walter Raleigh","tags":["passion","poem","renaissance","unrequited-love"],"id":44506,"author_id":"Walter+Raleigh"},{"text":"Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.","author":"Michel de Montaigne","tags":["essay","french","philosophy","renaissance","skepticism"],"id":45020,"author_id":"Michel+de+Montaigne"},{"text":"In other words, Botticelli's ideal women look like women and not boys. They're soft and curvaceous. Healthy and rounded. Women of the size figured in this painting were considered beautiful for centuries, if not millennia. They were the aesthetic ideal during my lifetime and long after.'He brought his mouth to her neck before whispering, 'My ideal hasn't changed.","author":"Sylvain Reynard","tags":["beauty","botticelli","plus-size","renaissance","william-to-raven"],"id":54899,"author_id":"Sylvain+Reynard"},{"text":"I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.","author":"Emma Watson","tags":["arts","empowerment","renaissance","women","women-s-rights"],"id":55793,"author_id":"Emma+Watson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}