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Attain the sum Of Wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew’st by name, and all the ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all Nature’s works, Or works of God in heaven, air, earth, and sea, And all the riches of the world enjoyedst, And all the rule, one empire; only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to some called charity, the soul Of all the rest.
Attain the sum Of Wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew’st by name, and all the ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all Nature’s works, Or works of God in heaven, air, earth, and sea, And all the riches of the world enjoyedst, And all the rule, one empire; only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to some called charity, the soul Of all the rest.
Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- John Milton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 107 · printed citation: Milton · subject: CHARITY
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