Thomas Traherne Quotes

• An empty book is like an infant’s soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

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• You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

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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 the basis of all love.

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• Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.

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• Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

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• More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

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• To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

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• This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.

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• This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God’s righteous Kingdom.

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• You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

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• In unexperienc’d Infancy Many a sweet mistake doth lie.

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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 palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

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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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• Some unknown joys there be Laid up in store for me.

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• Sleep is cousin German unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.

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• A Stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange Treasures lodg’d in this fair world appear, Strange all, and New to me, But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That Strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.

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Thomas Traherne (16)

Birth:	1636
Death:	27th September, 1674
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Clergyman, Poet, Theologian, Writer

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Thomas Traherne was an English poet, clergyman, theologian, and religious writer. Little information is known about his life. The intense, scholarly spirituality in his writings led to his being commemorated by the Anglican Church on 10 October.

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