8 Quotes by Thomas Traherne
- You never know yourself till you know more than your body.
- 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.
- 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.
- This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.
- To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
- 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.
- Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.
- 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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