Quotes by Traherne, Thomas

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love >>

This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein >>

You never know yourself till you know more than your body. >>

Quotations about Greed

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement und >>

For greed all nature is too little. >>

Big mouthfuls often choke. >>

It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?

Traherne, Thomas