Thomas Traherne

The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love.

— Thomas Traherne

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

— Thomas Traherne

Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.

— Thomas Traherne

We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.

— Thomas Traherne

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.

— Thomas Traherne

The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a…

— Thomas Traherne

I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle…

— Thomas Traherne

You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flowers in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and…

— Thomas Traherne

Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from…

— 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…

— Thomas Traherne

How like an angel came I down!

— Thomas Traherne

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and…

— Thomas Traherne

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of…

— Thomas Traherne

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of…

— Thomas Traherne

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

— Thomas Traherne

By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope…

— Thomas Traherne

“Our Saviour's meaning, when He said, He must be born again and become a little child that will enter in the Kingdom…

— Thomas Traherne

Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.

— Thomas Traherne

Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy…

— Thomas Traherne

He knoweth nothing as he ought to know it, who thinketh he knoweth anything without seeing its place and the manner how…

— Thomas Traherne

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man…

— Thomas Traherne

Be sensible of your wants, that you maybe sensible of your treasures.

— Thomas Traherne

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness…

— Thomas Traherne

A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of…

— Thomas Traherne

To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs…

— Thomas Traherne