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

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Lord grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish.

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Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

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My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

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

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From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

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

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

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