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None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.
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Notes on the Parables, Prodigal Son; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 321.

 

Richard Chenevix Trench

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