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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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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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Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.
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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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That when we live no more, We may live ever
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We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.
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Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
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Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.
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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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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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Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.
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But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
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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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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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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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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
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