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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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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
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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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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 happy am, if well with you.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
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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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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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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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I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.
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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 prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.
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Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
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