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What to my Saviour shall I giveWho freely hath done this for me?I'll serve him here whilst I shall liveAnd Loue him to Eternity

Anne Bradstreet

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Anne Bradstreet
Age: 60 †
Born: 1612
Born: March 20
Died: 1672
Died: September 16
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Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
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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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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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I happy am, if well with you.
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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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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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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
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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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Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.
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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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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
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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 am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.
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