How well do the instances cited below illustrate the oft-quoted
sentence of Augustine, “Restless are our hearts, O God, until they rest
in Thee.”
Sheridan, idol of his day, had for his last words: “I am
absolutely undone.” “Take me back to my room,” sighed Sir Walter
Scott; “there is no rest for me but the grave.” Charles Lamb
said: “I walk up and down thinking I am happy, but feeling I am
not.” Edmund Burke said he would not give a peck of refuse wheat
for all the fame in the world.
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