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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7280/">Quotes by <em>Traherne, Thomas</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"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."

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

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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?"

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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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"You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars."

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"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."

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

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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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"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."

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