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I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.
Anne Bradstreet
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Anne Bradstreet
Age: 60 †
Born: 1612
Born: March 20
Died: 1672
Died: September 16
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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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Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
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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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The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
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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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I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
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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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If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
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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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The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
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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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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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Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
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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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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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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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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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