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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
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Hereford
Herefordshire
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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.
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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.
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To think well is to serve God in the interior court.
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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.
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You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.
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Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.
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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.
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Be sensible of your wants, that you maybe sensible of your treasures.
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We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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