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Thomas Traherne quotes: 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.

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.

Thomas Traherne quotes: To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Thomas Traherne quotes: 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.

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.

Thomas Traherne quotes: This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.

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

Thomas Traherne quotes: 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.

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.

Thomas Traherne quotes: 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.

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.

Thomas Traherne quotes: You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.

You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.

Thomas Traherne quotes: 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.

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.

Thomas Traherne quotes: Be sensible of your wants, that you maybe sensible of your treasures.

Be sensible of your wants, that you maybe sensible of your treasures.

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

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

Thomas Traherne quotes: The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.

Thomas Traherne quotes: Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.

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

Thomas Traherne quotes: Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.

Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.

Thomas Traherne quotes: The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love.

The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love.

Thomas Traherne quotes: Why is this soe long detaind in a dark manuscript, that if printed would be a Light to the World, & a Universal Blessing?

Why is this soe long detaind in a dark manuscript, that if printed would be a Light to the World, & a Universal Blessing?

Thomas Traherne quotes: You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

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

Thomas Traherne quotes: 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?

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?

Thomas Traherne quotes: As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

Thomas Traherne quotes: How like an angel came I down!

How like an angel came I down!

Thomas Traherne quotes: Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

Thomas Traherne quotes: Souls are God's jewels.

Souls are God's jewels.

Thomas Traherne quotes: To think well is to serve God in the interior court.

To think well is to serve God in the interior court.

Thomas Traherne quotes: We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.

We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.

Thomas Traherne quotes: 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.

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.