ThursdayMay 21, 2026
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
I live and love in Gods peculiar light.
The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.
There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the tongue to reach his smallest worth, He to the realms of sinfulness came down, To teach mankind, ascending then to God, Heaven unbarred to him her lofty gates, To whom his country heres refused to ope. Ungrateful land! Well, too, does this instruct That greatest ills fall to the perfectest. And, midst a thousand proofs, let this suffice That, as his exile had no parallel, So never was there man more great than he.
The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
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