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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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.Thomas Traherne
All men see the same objects, but do not equally understand them. Intelligence is the tongue that discerns and tastes them.
Thomas Traherne
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
Thomas Traherne
More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
Thomas Traherne
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
Thomas Traherne
You never know yourself till you know more than your body.
Thomas Traherne
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