Michelangelo

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• If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.

• You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have.

• You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time.

• The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.

• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

• The best of artists hath no thought to show, which the rough stone in its superfluous shell, doth not include; to break the marble spell, is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

• Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

• If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

• I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

• I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

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