Thomas Traherne - Life Quotes

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Order the beauty even of beauty is,
It is the rule of bliss,
The very life and form and cause of pleasure.

Thomas Traherne

I within did flow
With seas of life, like wine.
I nothing in this world did know,
But 'twas divine!

Thomas Traherne

The Men! O what venerable and reverend creatures did the aged seem! Immortal Cherubims! And young men glittering and sparkling Angels, and maids strange seraphic pieces of life and beauty! Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving jewels. I knew not that they were born or should die; But all things abided eternally as they were in their proper places.

Thomas Traherne

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.

Thomas Traherne