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We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.
Anne Bradstreet
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Anne Bradstreet
Age: 60 †
Born: 1612
Born: March 20
Died: 1672
Died: September 16
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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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Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
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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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The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
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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 age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
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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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If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
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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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Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.
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Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.
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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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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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But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
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Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
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