Quote by Thomas Traherne

The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love.

— Thomas Traherne

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

— Thomas Traherne

Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.

— Thomas Traherne

We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.

— Thomas Traherne

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.

— Thomas Traherne

The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we…

— Thomas Traherne

I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of…

— Thomas Traherne

You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flowers in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with…

— Thomas Traherne

Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them,…

— Thomas Traherne

“Love can forbear, and Love can forgive...but Love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object... He can never therefore be reconciled to your…

— Thomas Traherne

How like an angel came I down!

— Thomas Traherne

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with…

— Thomas Traherne