Marble Quotes

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  I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

  Michelangelo

  Life, Art, Creativity

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• A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Love, Inspirational, Kindness

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1868). “John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people”, p.162

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• Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Writing, Dust

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

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Artist, Form

  Sonnet 15 (translation by Elizabeth Jennings)

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• Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

  Alexis Carrel

  Motivational Sports, Men, Work Out

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• Life is made up of marble and mud.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Life, Mud, Made

  1851 The House of the Seven Gables, ch.2.

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• The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Doe, Conception

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• The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Block, Needed

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• Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

  Alexander Pope

  Sculpture, Grew, Warm

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1853). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.62

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• One should always dress like a marble column.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Fashion, Clothes, Dresses

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• Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

  Sara Gruen

  Hard Work, Important, Aging

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Beautiful, Art, Block

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1902). “The Philistine”

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• The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

  Christopher Wren

  Secret, Excellence, Dachshunds

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• Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

  Aldous Huxley

  Architecture, Sin, Perceive

  Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Attitude, Wall

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• Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Kindness, Tombstone

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• To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

  Anton Chekhov

  Mean, Faces, Slabs

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics”

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• Much rain wears the marble.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Rain

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, William Richardson (1807). “King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3”, p.359

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• I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Education, Running, Clouds

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.3178, Delphi Classics

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• We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

  Richard Bach

  Block, Tools, Sculpture

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• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

  Joseph Addison

  Motivational, Inspiring, Education

  The Spectator, No. 215, November 6, 1711.

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• A good character is the best tombstone.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kindness, Tombstone, Character

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 44), 1895.

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• On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Clouds, Looks, Sides

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 1999.

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• As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it very loose, the line of the law so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.

  Dean Koontz

  Law, Play, Lines

  "Watchers". Book by Dean Koontz, 1987.

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• Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate.

  John Muir

  Sympathy, People, Touching

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