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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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My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.
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The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
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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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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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The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
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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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I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
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Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.
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Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
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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 a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.
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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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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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My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
Anne Bradstreet
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
Anne Bradstreet
Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
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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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Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.
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