The Works of Anne Bradstreet
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“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
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Source: Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1: Colonial through Romantic
“My love is such that rivers cannot quench”
Source: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, Or, Severall Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight: Wherein Especially Is ... Elements, Constitutions, Ages of Man, ...
“My hope and treasure lies above”
Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
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“The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.”
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Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
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“Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.”
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“My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.”
Source: To My Husband and Other Poems
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“But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.”
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
Source: To My Husband and Other Poems
“That when we live no more, We may live ever”
Source: To My Husband and Other Poems
“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.”
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.”
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse
Source: To My Husband and Other Poems
“If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.”
“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”
Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet
“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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“Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.”
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse
“A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.”
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet
“I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.”
Source: To My Husband and Other Poems
“I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.”
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
“Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.”
Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet
“I happy am, if well with you.”
Source: To My Husband and Other Poems
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
“If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.”
“I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.”
Source: To My Husband and Other Poems