American - Poet | March 20, 1612 - September 16, 1672
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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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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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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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.
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