Thoughts! Surely Thoughts are true;
They please as much as Things can do:
Nay, Things are dead.
And in themselves are severed
From souls, nor can they fill the head
Without our Thoughts. Thoughts are the real things
From whence all joy, from whence all sorrow springs.
NOTE: From his Meditations. Traherne develops the idea that reality exists only in our thoughts, not in the material world.
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