Thomas Traherne Quotes

There Was Never A Tutor That Did Professly Teach Felicity, Though That Be The Mistress Of All Other Sciences. Nor Did Any Of Us Study These Things But As Aliena, Which We Ought To Have Studied As Our Enjoyments. We Studied To Inform Our Knowledge, But Knew Not For What End We So Studied. And For Lack Of Aiming At A Certain End We Erred In The Manner. Howbeit There We Received All Those Seeds Of Knowledge That Were Afterwards Improved; And Our Souls Were Awakened To A Discerning Of Their Faculties, And Exercise Of Their Powers.

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