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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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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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More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I…
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Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from…
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We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
— Winston Churchill
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Be the first to seize intersecting ground, that is ground which lies the intersections of borders or intersections of main thoroughfares of…
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than…
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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
— Epictetus
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it…
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Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
— Arthur Hugh Clough
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Guys who can't take care of their own women always covet other guys' women
— Kang Min-hyuk
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The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus,…
— Unknown Author
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Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
— Thomas a Kempis
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I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I…
— Gary Oldman
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
— Otto Rank
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