Delightful Quote by Thomas Traherne

“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.”

Thomas Traherne

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

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

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

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

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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 ways of…

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

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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 before them,…

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“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…

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How like an angel came I down!

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In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.

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