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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him, and to imitate Him, by possessing our souls of true virtue.
The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him, and to imitate Him, by possessing our souls of true virtue.
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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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
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