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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