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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet
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Anne Bradstreet
Age: 60 †
Born: 1612
Born: March 20
Died: 1672
Died: September 16
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Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.
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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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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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My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
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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 ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.
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The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
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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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What to my Saviour shall I giveWho freely hath done this for me?I'll serve him here whilst I shall liveAnd Loue him to Eternity
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My hope and treasure lies above
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He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.
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I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits/ 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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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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Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
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If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
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But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
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