"Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee."

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"Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee."

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Charles Kendall Adams, American Educator

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Josef Albers, German Artist

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"No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it."

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William Allingham, Irish Poet

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"A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart."

Pietro Aretino, Italian Poet

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