Thomas Traherne
Thomas Traherne
Thomas Traherne MAwas an English poet, clergyman, theologian, and religious writer. Little information is known about his life. The intense, scholarly spirituality in his writings has led to his being commemorated by some parts of the Anglican Communion on 10 Octoberor on September 27...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
love means others true
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.
love shining soul
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.
love-you love-is self
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....
life-and-love spring men
Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.
love shining sun
You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.
love kings war
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.
love miserable poor
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
dark blessing light
Why is this soe long detaind in a dark manuscript, that if printed would be a Light to the World, & a Universal Blessing?
thinking court serving-god
To think well is to serve God in the interior court.
cousin sleep skeletons
Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.
heart greatness men
Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his heart and the height of his condition, his mighty confidence and contempt of danger, his true security and repose in himself, his liberty to dare and do what he pleaseth, his alacrity in the midst of fears, his invincible temper, are advantages which make him master of fortune.
christian angel roots
By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us.
moving eye feet
To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.
essence soul matter
The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.