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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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I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
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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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Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.
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Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
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I happy am, if well with you.
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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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Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
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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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