18 Quotations by Thomas Traherne
- 1. A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a wor ...
- 2. An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all thing ...
- 3. Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I ...
- 4. Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-l ...
- 5. Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will n ...
- 6. I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the ...
- 7. Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which t ...
- 8. It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give ...
- 9. Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.
- 10. More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
- 11. The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it wi ...
- 12. The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a temple of majesty, yet no man ...
- 13. This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely ex ...
- 14. To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable; to love all is glorious.
- 15. To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the m ...
- 16. You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed wi ...
- 17. You never know yourself till you know more than your body.
- 18. Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in ...
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