"The soul is made for action, and cannot……" — Thomas Traherne
"The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain."
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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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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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