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I happy am, if well with you.

Anne Bradstreet

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Anne Bradstreet
Age: 60 †
Born: 1612
Born: March 20
Died: 1672
Died: September 16
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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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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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But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
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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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That when we live no more, We may live ever
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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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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 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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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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Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
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My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
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I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.
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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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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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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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What to my Saviour shall I giveWho freely hath done this for me?I'll serve him here whilst I shall liveAnd Loue him to Eternity
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The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
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Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
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