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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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I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.
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I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.
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I happy am, if well with you.
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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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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
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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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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 two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
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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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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
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