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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

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Thomas Traherne
Age: 38 †
Born: 1636
Born: October 10
Died: 1674
Died: October 10
Poet
Theologian
Writer
Hereford
Herefordshire
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Wonders
Like
Reading
Infant
Anything
Profitable
May
Emptiness
Soul
Fill
Book
Empty
Nothing
Capable
Mind
Wonder

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