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Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
Anne Bradstreet
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Anne Bradstreet
Age: 60 †
Born: 1612
Born: March 20
Died: 1672
Died: September 16
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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
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The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
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And time brings down what is both strong and tall. But plants new set to be eradicate, And buds new blown, to have so short a date, Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate.
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Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
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When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen
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The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
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That when we live no more, We may live ever
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Sin and shame ever go together he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
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I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
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It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts.
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If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.
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Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.
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Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.
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If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
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If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
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Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
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