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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.


Michelangelo

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Which is contained within the marble shell;
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MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI Trifles go to make perfection,
And perfection is no trifle.
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The more the marble wastes
The more th...
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n...
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(Yet I am learning)
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Which a single piece of marble does not itself co...
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with peace you force all the restless work to en...
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