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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
Anne Bradstreet
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Anne Bradstreet
Age: 60 †
Born: 1612
Born: March 20
Died: 1672
Died: September 16
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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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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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I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
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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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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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Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
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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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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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That when we live no more, We may live ever
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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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My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
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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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Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
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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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Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
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If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
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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 world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
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