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Thomas Traherne

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English poet

Person · Open Library

Born
1637
Died
1674
Works
73

Top works

  • The poetical works of Thomas Traherne, B.D., 1636?-1674
  • The Pembroke Booklets: First Series
  • Commentaries of heaven
  • [Dobell folio]
  • Church's yearbook

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active to
1674

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Listeners
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Total plays
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Quotes

  • A stranger hereStrange things doth meet, strange glories see;Strange treasures lodg'd in this fair world appear,Strange all and new to me;But that they mine should be who nothing was,That strangest is of all; yet brought to pass.
  • Order the beauty even of beauty is,It is the rule of bliss,The very life and form and cause of pleasure.
  • 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.
  • Some unknown joys there beLaid up in store for me.
  • An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing.
  • As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

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1636-10-10
date of death
1674-10-10
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