Quote#Beauty
All appeared new, and strange at first, inexpressibly rare and…
Quote byThomas Traherne · 1636–1674
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Centuries of Meditations, Third Century, sect. 2..
English (original)
All appeared new, and strange at first, inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful. I was a little stranger, which at my entrance into the world was saluted and surrounded with innumerable joys. My knowledge was Divine. I knew by intuition those things which since my Apostasy, I collected again by the highest reason.
— Thomas Traherne
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