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A Proverb of Hope: ‘It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn’
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A Proverb of Hope: ‘It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn’

This proverb, with a concept that is shared across languages and cultures, is particularly applicable to our day.
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The Florentine artist Fra Filippo Lippi explored marriage traditions in Renaissance Italy’s first composed double portrait.
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St. John’s Cathedral: Dutch Gothic in the Netherlands

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This proverb, with a concept that is shared across languages and cultures, is particularly applicable to our day.
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