Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.
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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.Thomas Traherne
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
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.
Thomas Traherne
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
The Men O what venerable and reverend creatures did the aged seem Immortal Cherubims And young men glittering and sparkling angels, and maids strange seraphic pieces of life and beauty Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving j.
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