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With all this wide and beautiful creation before me the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.
With all this wide and beautiful creation before me the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.
Approximate author period: c. 1548 AD · renaissance
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- Teresa of Avila
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- Approximate author period: c. 1548 AD · renaissance
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Teresa of Ávila, based on documented lifetime 1515 to 1582. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174880 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution.
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