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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.
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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Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
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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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My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
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We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.
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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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I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
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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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If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
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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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I happy am, if well with you.
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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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There is no object that we see no action that we do no good that we enjoy no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.
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I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.
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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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I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
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