"We love we know not what, and therefore……" — Thomas Traherne
"We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us."
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Thomas Traherne
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38 Quotes by Thomas Traherne
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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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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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