Thomas Traherne Quotes

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• Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never… Book
• As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well. Difficult
• Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child. Adam
• You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of humans. Delightful
• To think well is to serve God in the interior court. Court
• To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move… Abroad
• Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you can never enjoy the world. Delight
• Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and… Bliss
• A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But… All
• You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine. Inspirational
• This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom. Delighted
• Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field. Barren
• 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?… Air
• Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious. Glorious
• Souls are God's jewels. God
• Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us. Amazing Life
• 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… Aright
• It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so proneto give, that he delighteth in us… Asking

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