17 ordspråk av Thomas Traherne

Thomas Traherne

Thomas Traherne föddes 1637 och dog 1674
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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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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