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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.
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
Had we not loved ourselves at all, ... (more Thomas Traherne quotes)
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