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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.
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 age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
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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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I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
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Sin and shame ever go together he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.
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The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
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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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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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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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Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
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