Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Sin and shame ever go together he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.
Anne Bradstreet
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anne Bradstreet
Age: 60 †
Born: 1612
Born: March 20
Died: 1672
Died: September 16
Poet
Writer
Ann Dudley
Ann Dudley Bradstreet
Anne Dudley Bradstreet
Anne Dudley
Ever
Freed
Firsts
Shame
First
Sin
Must
Company
Would
Sure
Lasts
Last
Together
Shun
More quotes by Anne Bradstreet
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.
Anne Bradstreet
Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
Anne Bradstreet
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.
Anne Bradstreet
But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
Anne Bradstreet
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
Anne Bradstreet
A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
Anne Bradstreet
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet
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
Anne Bradstreet
Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.
Anne Bradstreet
Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
Anne Bradstreet
The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
Anne Bradstreet
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.
Anne Bradstreet
I happy am, if well with you.
Anne Bradstreet
Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
Anne Bradstreet
My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
Anne Bradstreet
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.
Anne Bradstreet
I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.
Anne Bradstreet
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
Anne Bradstreet
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.
Anne Bradstreet
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
Anne Bradstreet
