Logo
Quote by Thomas Traherne
More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery. – Thomas Traherne

Other quotes by Thomas Traherne

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child. – Thomas Traherne

Category:
Innocence
Author
Thomas Traherne
Read Quote

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Fathers palace and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels. – Thomas Traherne

Category:
Morning
Author
Thomas Traherne
Read Quote

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness. – Thomas Traherne

Category:
Happiness
Author
Thomas Traherne
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

Happiness is a form of courage. – Holbrook Jackson

Category:
Happiness

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. – Sydney Smith

Category:
Happiness

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. – Joseph Butler

Category:
Happiness

Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object. – Hermann Hesse

Category:
Happiness

Random Quotes

When man is serene, the pulse of the heart flows and connects, just as pearls are joined together or like a string of red jade, then one can talk about a healthy heart. – The Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Internal Medicine, 2500 B.C.

Category:
Heart

You cant learn everything you need to know legally. – John Irving

Category:
legal

As for the bitter herbs…. To see everyone with tears coursing down their faces, laughing and gasping at the same time, is fun and also makes the point — bitter herbs must be really bitter to experience the suffering… – Julia Neuberger, On Being Jewish, 1995

Category:
Passover

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. – Arthur Conan Doyle

Category:
Art