"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
"As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows."
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Source: Michelangelo's sonnet addressed to Vittoria Colonna as quoted in Mrs. Henry Roscoe Vittoria Colonna: Her Life and Poems (p. 169), 1868.
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