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

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When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could have hit my forehand harder. But the truth was this was like an avalanche, and there was no way to stop it.

Michelangelo

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

Death, Inspiration, Love, Men, Wings

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What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

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I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

Christianity, God, God Love, Hope, Love, Serve

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

Beautiful, Heart, Love Is, Seen

I am still learning. (at age 87)

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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.

Endeavour, Mind, Perfect, Soul, Strives

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When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.

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