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Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
Anne Bradstreet
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Anne Bradstreet
Age: 60 †
Born: 1612
Born: March 20
Died: 1672
Died: September 16
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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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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
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If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.
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My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
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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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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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I happy am, if well with you.
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Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.
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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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Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
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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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The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
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Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
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The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
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The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
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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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To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.
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My hope and treasure lies above
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