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> [Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/till-you-can-sing-and-rejoice-and-delight-in-god-as-misers-do-in-gold/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

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> [“You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/you-never-enjoy-the-world-aright-till-the-sea-itself-floweth-in-your-3/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

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## More by Thomas Traherne

> [The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/the-soul-is-shriveled-up-and-buried-in-a-grave-that-does-not-love/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/to-love-one-person-with-a-private-love-is-poor-and-miserable-to-love/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/sleep-is-cousin-german-unto-death-sleep-and-death-differ-no-more-than/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/we-love-we-know-not-what-and-therefore-everything-allures-us/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/the-world-is-a-mirror-of-infinite-beauty-yet-no-man-sees-it/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/the-sense-itself-was-i-i-felt-no-dross-or-matter-in-my-soul-no-brims/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/i-will-not-by-the-noise-of-bloody-wars-and-the-dethroning-of-kings/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flowers in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/you-never-enjoy-the-world-aright-till-the-sea-itself-flowers-in-your/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/let-those-parents-that-desire-holy-children-learn-to-make-them/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [“Love can forbear, and Love can forgive...but Love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object... He can never therefore be reconciled to your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/love-can-forbear-and-love-can-forgive-but-love-can-never-be/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [How like an angel came I down!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/how-like-an-angel-came-i-down/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/you-never-enjoy-the-world-aright-till-the-sea-itself-floweth-in-your/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/is-it-not-strange-that-an-infant-should-be-heir-of-the-whole-world/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/to-think-the-world-therefore-a-general-bedlam-or-place-of-madmen-and/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/as-nothing-is-more-easy-than-to-think-so-nothing-is-more-difficult/)

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