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All things point to the infinite; and love more than all things else.

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Complex as is the character of love, here are two things which love
always does: always it

"Refines the thoughts
And heart enlarges;"
--Milton

and,

Love dyes all things a cerulean hue. (What a pity it is not a fast
color!)

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Love is the most antimonial of emotions: it worships, yet it will not
stop at sacrilege; it will build about its object a temple of adoration,
then desecrate the fane; it will give all, yet ruthlessly seize
everything; it delights in pleasing, yet it sometimes wittingly wounds;
its ineffable tenderness often merges into an inclemency extraordinary;
--symbol of universal duality, it is at once demonical and angelic.

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