Thomas Traherne Quotes

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.

- Thomas Traherne

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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. - Thomas Traherne

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. - Thomas Traherne