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My hope and treasure lies 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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Ann Dudley
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Treasure
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The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
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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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Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
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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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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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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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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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Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
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I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
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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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Sin and shame ever go together he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.
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That when we live no more, We may live ever
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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 spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
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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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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.
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