"15 Anne Bradstreet Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 20 March 1612. Died: 16 September 1672 | Poet | Writer |

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Anne Bradstreet

Authority Wisdom Like Edge

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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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Wisdom Inheritance Good Without

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That when we live no more, We may live ever

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That We Live No more

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My love is such that rivers cannot quench

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My Love Rivers Cannot

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Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

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Sweet Words Honey Refresh

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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

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Youth Time Getting Age

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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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If Do Prove Advance

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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

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Prosperous State Makes Secure

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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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Fire Force Abated Anger

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If we had no 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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If Pleasant Taste Adversity

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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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I Prize Love More than

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The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.

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World Longer Love Hope

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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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We Strangers Pilgrims Plainly declare

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But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

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Man Grows Old Remains

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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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Sin Shame Together Freed

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"15 Anne Bradstreet Quotes & Sayings

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Anne Bradstreet

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet

My love is such that rivers cannot quench

Anne Bradstreet

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

Anne Bradstreet

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

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

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

Anne Bradstreet

The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.

Anne Bradstreet

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

Anne Bradstreet

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

Anne Bradstreet

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

Anne Bradstreet Quotes & Sayings

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"15 Anne Bradstreet Quotes & Sayings

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Anne Bradstreet

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet

My love is such that rivers cannot quench

Anne Bradstreet

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

Anne Bradstreet

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

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

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

Anne Bradstreet

The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.

Anne Bradstreet

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

Anne Bradstreet

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

Anne Bradstreet

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

Anne Bradstreet Quotes & Sayings

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