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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.
Anne Bradstreet
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Anne Bradstreet
Age: 60 †
Born: 1612
Born: March 20
Died: 1672
Died: September 16
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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 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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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
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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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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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I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
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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.
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My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
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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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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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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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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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I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.
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