Top 42 Thomas Traherne Quotes
#1. To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
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#2. Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?
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#3. Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.
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#4. 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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#5. By Love alone is God enjoyed, by Love alone delighted in, by Love alone approached or admired. His Nature requires Love, thy nature requires Love. The law of Nature commands thee to Love Him: the Law of His nature, and the Law of thine.
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#6. 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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#7. By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us.
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#8. I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
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#9. Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.
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#10. Be sensible of your wants, that you maybe sensible of your treasures.
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#11. As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.
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#12. The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love.
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#13. A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.
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#14. Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.
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#15. The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.
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#17. Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to magnify nothing but what is great indeed, and to talk of God to them, and of His works and ways. before they can either speak or go.
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#18. For though it be a maxim in the schools that there is no Love of a thing unknown, yet I have found that things unknown have a secret influence on the soul,
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#19. Now to enjoy the treasures of God in the similitude of God, is the most perfect blessedness God could devise. For the treasures of God are the most perfect treasures, and the manner of God is the most perfect manner.
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#21. A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged 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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#22. We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.
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#23. 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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#24. 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.
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#25. And every stone and every star a tongue,
And every gale of wind a curious song.
The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke
Divinity: the Earth did undertake
The office of a priest; and I being dumb
(Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come
With voices and instructions ...
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#26. Love can forbear, and Love can forgive ... but Love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object ... He can never therefore be reconciled to your sin, because sin itself is incapable of being altered; but He may be reconciled to your person because that may be restored and Loved.
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#27. The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.
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#28. Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.
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#33. To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.
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#34. 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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#35. Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.
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#36. Why is this soe long detaind in a dark manuscript, that if printed would be a Light to the World, & a Universal Blessing?
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#38. The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.
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#39. You never know yourself till you know more than your body.
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#40. He knoweth nothing as he ought to know it, who thinketh he knoweth anything without seeing its place and the manner how it relateth to God, angels, and men, and to all the creatures in earth, heaven and hell, time and eternity.
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#41. 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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#42. We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.
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