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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
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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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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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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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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Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.
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It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts.
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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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That when we live no more, We may live ever
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My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
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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 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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But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
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If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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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 world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
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Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.
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I happy am, if well with you.
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The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
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