Quotes by Anne Bradstreet - Page 1

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Leadership
Business
Authority And Power
Bruises
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I happy am, if well with you.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Happiness
Ifs
Wells
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My hope and treasure lies above
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Lying
Treasure
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I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
May
Sun
Wish
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That when we live no more, We may live ever
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Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
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The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Emblems
Resurrection
Spring
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Adversity
Spring
Winter
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But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
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Death
Men
Lying
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The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Heaven
Treasure
World
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My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
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Age
My Time
Old Age
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If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Men
Dear Love
Wife
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Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
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Hands
Hard
Laborers
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Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.
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Love
Bones
Flesh
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I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.
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Fit
Hands
Tongue
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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Adversity
Christian
Prosperous
Secure
States
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Age
Improving
Middle
Old Age
Spending
Youth
Time Age Youth
Time Age Old Age
Middle Age
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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Love
Marriage
Couple
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Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Littles
May
Sweet
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Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Art
Brain
Weak
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I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
East
Gold
Riches
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Wisdom
Authority
Heavy
Polish
Like
Ax
Bruise
Without
Edge
Fitter
Than
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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.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Chance
Action
Memorable
Prove
Stolen
Advance
Else
Well
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We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Life
Cities
May
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Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Life
Inheritance
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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.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Firsts
Together
Would Be
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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.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Anger
Fire
Wind
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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.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Kings
War
Cities
Mean
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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 / Poet
Done
Eternity
Saviour
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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.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Appreciation
Inspirational
Life
Smile
Fear
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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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Men
Bait
Too Late
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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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Height
Littles
Long
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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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Famous Love
Love Is
Rivers
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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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Age
Ignorant
Youth
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And time brings down what is both strong and tall. But plants new set to be eradicate, And buds new blown, to have so short a date, Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Death
Fate
Strong
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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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Beauty
Tree
Wrinkles
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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.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Men
Grace
Iron
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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 pleases.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Affliction
Beats
Incapable
Iron
God Good Men
Anvil
Cast
Frame
Furnace
Heated
Till
Pleases
Sees
Some Men
Thoroughly
Wrought
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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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Wise
Evil
Spiritual
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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.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Death
Lying
Spring
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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.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Eye
Mean
Poverty
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I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Female
Hands
Tongue
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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.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Fall
Gay
Pride
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O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains over kings; Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their names without a record are forgot, Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th' dust Nor wit nor gold, nor buildings scape time's rust; But he whose name is graved in the white stone Shall last and shine when all of these are gone.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Kings
Men
Dust
Names
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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee; 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. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold repay, Then while we live, in love let's so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Death
Men
Love Is
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