17 ordspråk av Thomas Traherne
Thomas Traherne
 Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us. |
| More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom. |
| To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious. |
| To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious. |
| 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. |
| You never know yourself till you know more than your body. |
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