Thomas Traherne Quotes

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• Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love....
• Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the…
• 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…
• An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have…
• This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is…
• The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It…
• To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
• I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace…
• To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an…
• More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
• Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel…
• Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to…
• It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in…
• We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities…
• A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry…
• The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.
• We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.
• You never know yourself till you know more than your body.
• An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written,
• The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste…

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