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> [Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/is-it-not-easy-to-conceive-the-world-in-your-mind-to-think-the/)

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

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> [This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/this-visible-world-is-wonderfully-to-be-delighted-in-and-highly-to-be/)

[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/)

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

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