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The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.
Michelangelo
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Michelangelo
Age: 88 †
Born: 1475
Born: March 6
Died: 1564
Died: February 18
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Michelangelo Bonorotti
Michael Angelo Buonarotti
Miguel Angel
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I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.
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The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
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Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
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The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.
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There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
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And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.
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There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
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True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
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Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
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