MondayMar 30, 2026
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
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 more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.
I live and love in Gods peculiar light.
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.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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