"Principles are like a seed in the ground;……" — Thomas Traherne
"Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field."
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Thomas Traherne
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38 Quotes by Thomas Traherne
Thomas Traherne has 38 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the…
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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,…
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This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting…
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The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet…
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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…
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To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary…
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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…
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Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly…
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Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will…
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat…
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Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference…
— Francis Bacon
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Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
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There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l…
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The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land,…
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