"An empty book is like an Infant's soul,……" — Thomas Traherne

"An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written,"

— Thomas Traherne

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38 Quotes by Thomas Traherne

Thomas Traherne has 38 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…
Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's…
You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the…
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things,…
This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting…
The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet…
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…
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary…
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…
Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly…

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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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