“[…] there is no love,
That merits such high christening, but is built
Firm upon some foundation out of sight;
God, country, virtue, something not ourself,
To which ourself is nothing, save the proof
Of its invisible sureness.”

—  Alfred Austin

Source: Candida to Valori in Act IV, sc. iv; p. 262, Savonarola (1881)

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