“Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee.”

— Aurelius Augustinus

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 515

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early Christian theologian and philosopher 354–430

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