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• A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.

  Thomas Traherne

  Eye, Sight, Perspective

  Thomas Traherne (2007). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.241, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

  Thomas Traherne

  Success, Thinking, Soul

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.299, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Thomas Traherne

  Happiness, Misery And Pain, Doe

  Thomas Traherne, Bertram Dobell (1908). “Centuries of Meditations, by Thomas Traherne (1636-1674) Now First Printed Frome the Author”

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• 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

  Happiness, Believe, Miserable

  Thomas Traherne (2007). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.237, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Book, Reading, Soul

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Thomas Traherne

  Thinking, Court, Serving God

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Essence, Soul, Matter

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

  Thomas Traherne

  Inspirational, Nature, Natural

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?

  Thomas Traherne

  Kings, Wall, Men

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Book, Childhood, World

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He knoweth nothing as he ought to know it, who thinketh he knoweth anything without seeing its place and the manner how it relateth to God, angels, and men, and to all the creatures in earth, heaven and hell, time and eternity.

  Thomas Traherne

  Angel, Men, Heaven

  Thomas Traherne (1968). “Christian Ethicks”

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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.

  Thomas Traherne

  Corn, Wheat, Should

  'Centuries of Meditations' Century 3, 3

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• 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.

  Thomas Traherne

  Moving, Eye, Journey

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• 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.

  Thomas Traherne

  Christian, Children, Silly

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  Thomas Traherne

  Love, Shining, Soul

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• By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us.

  Thomas Traherne

  Christian, Angel, Roots

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.161, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Thomas Traherne

  Knowledge, Body, Know Yourself

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Thomas Traherne

  Allure, Knows

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Thomas Traherne

  Sweet, Children, Paradise

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.151, Cosimo, Inc.

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• An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written.

  Thomas Traherne

  Book, Soul, May

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Dark, Blessing, Light

  Thomas Traherne, Jan Ross (2005). “The Works of Thomas Traherne: Inducements to retirednes ; A sober view of Dr Twisses, his considerations ; Seeds of eternity, or, The nature of the soul ; The kingdom of God”, p.14, DS Brewer

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• How like an angel came I down!

  Thomas Traherne

  Angel

  Thomas Traherne (1968). “Christian Ethicks”

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