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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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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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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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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!
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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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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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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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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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The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
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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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My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
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That when we live no more, We may live ever
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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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Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.
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There is no object that we see no action that we do no good that we enjoy no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.
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If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
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The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
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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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