Thomas Traherne Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Thomas Traherne:

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
~Thomas Traherne


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-traherne-quotes/#ab533995

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.
~Thomas Traherne


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-traherne-quotes/#9089e091

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-traherne-quotes/#f8056ece

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-traherne-quotes/#a153e0b4

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-traherne-quotes/#0edc7980

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.
~Thomas Traherne


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-traherne-quotes/#714f9711

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-traherne-quotes/#90ef01eb

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.
~Thomas Traherne


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-traherne-quotes/#c0d2117a

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-traherne-quotes/#e654b51a

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-traherne-quotes/#847f52a1

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-traherne-quotes/#977ff82f

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-traherne-quotes/#2500b47d

Find Thomas Traherne on Ebay!