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Some unknown joys there be
Laid up in store for me.
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We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.
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Be sensible of your wants, that you maybe sensible of your treasures.
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More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
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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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As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.
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I within did flow
With seas of life, like wine.
I nothing in this world did know,
But 'twas divine!
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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.
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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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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.
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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing.
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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.
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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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This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.
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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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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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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.
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Contentment is a sleepy thing
If it in death alone must die;
A quiet mind is worse than poverty,
Unless it from enjoyment spring!
That's blessedness alone that makes a King!
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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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The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of Light and Peace, did not man disquiet it. It is the Paradise of God.
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The green trees when I saw them first…transported and ravished me, their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap and almost mad with ecstasy, they were such strange and wonderful things.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
Thomas Traherne
Born:
1637
Died:
October 10, 1674
(aged 37)
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