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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

Approximate author period: c. 1646 AD · renaissance

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Edmund Waller
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Approximate author period: c. 1646 AD · renaissance
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Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)

Printed page 115 · quotation 6 · Edmund Waller · Of Divine Love. Canto III. L. 41.

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