"Till you can sing and rejoice and delight……" — Thomas Traherne

"Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you can never enjoy the world."

— 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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More Delight Quotes

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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be… — Hannah Arendt
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the… — Jane Austen
Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to… — Teresa of Avila
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. — Francis Bacon
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights… — Saint Basil
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from… — Charles Baudelaire
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a… — Joseph Addison
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words… — Venerable Bede

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