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Thomas Traherne has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and…
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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…
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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth…
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This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of…
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The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man…
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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
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I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle…
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I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam.…
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To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of…
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Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks…
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Don't think that the lack of leaders and of a party ideological line means anarchy, if by anarchy you mean chaos, bedlam,…
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner…
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Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.
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As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous…
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