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Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.
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 world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
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Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
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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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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
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That when we live no more, We may live ever
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I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.
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My hope and treasure lies above
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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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I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
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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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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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We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.
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But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
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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.
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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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If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
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