“One's thoughts turn towards Hope.”

—  Leonardo Da Vinci

By the side of this passage is a sketch of a cage with a bird sitting in it.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations

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Italian Renaissance polymath 1452–1519

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