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Great love has many attributes, and shrines for varied worshippers, but his force divine shows most its many-named fulness in the man whose nature multitudinously mixed-- each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- resists all easy gladness, all content save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul flooded with consciousness of good that is finds life one bounteous answer.
-George Eliot
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Great Love Has Many Attributes, And Shrines

George Eliot
Great love has many attributes, and shrines for varied worshippers, but his force divine shows most its many-named fulness in the man whose nature multitudinously mixed-- each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- resists all easy gladness, all content save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul flooded with consciousness of good that is finds life one bounteous answer.
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