Gentle Ways Quotes by Thomas Traherne

More Quotes by Thomas Traherne

Thomas Traherne has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis…
• Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and…
• You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and…
• An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth…
• This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of…
• The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man…
• 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…
• To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of…
• 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…
• Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from…

See all 39 quotes by Thomas Traherne »