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Thomas Traherne

Thomas Traherne (/trəˈhɑːrn/; 1636 or 1637 – c. 27 September 1674) was an English poet, clergyman, theologian, and religious writer. The intense, scholarly spirituality in his writings has led to his being commemorated by some parts of the Anglican Communion on 10 October (the anniversary of his burial in 1674) or on September 27.

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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.

Corn, Everlasting, Should, Sown, Wheat

You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flowers in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men and women are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight, as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you never enjoy the world.

Crowned, Flower, Kings, Sea, Stars, Whole

To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.

Eye, Journey, Logs, Moving, Walk, Wood

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.

Bedlam, Happiness, Imagination, Madmen, Present, Thinking

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

Diminish, Doe, Happiness, Increases, Misery, Misery And Pain

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of Light and Peace, did not men disquiet it. It is the Paradise of God.

Fear, Man, Men, Mirrors, Paradise, World

You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of humans.

Humans, Love, Natural, Shining, Soul

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

Infinite, Infinite Beauty, Men, Mirror, Mirrors, World

Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to magnify nothing but what is great indeed, and to talk of God to them, and of His works and ways. before they can either speak or go.

Christian, Children, Silly, Works, Objects, Parents

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

Glorious, Inspirational, Know, Natural, Nature

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

Esteemed, Kingdom, Kingdoms, Theatre, World

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

Maybe, Sensible, Treasure, Treasures, Want

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.

Duration, Exhibited, Exhibits, Joy, Region, Space

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.

Glory, Kings, Love, War

Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.

Contemplate, God, Life And Love, Men, Spring, Things

How like an angel came I down!

Angel, Came, Down, Like

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?

Book, Childhood, World, See, Infant

A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.

Brought, Gardening, Religion, Strange, Things, World

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

Buried, Doe, Graves, Love, Soul

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

Love, Miserable, Person, Poor

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