Anne Bradstreet Quotes

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A Spring returns, and they more youthful made;
But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

Anne Bradstreet
Let Greeks be Greeks, and Women what they are,
Men have precedency, and still excel.

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

Anne Bradstreet
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!

Anne Bradstreet
My age I will not once lament,
But sing, my time so near is spent.

Anne Bradstreet
The principal might yield a greater sum,
Yet handled ill, amounts but to this crumb;

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
This book, by any yet unread,
I leave for you when I am dead,
That, being gone, here you may find
What was your living mother's mind.
Make use of what I leave in love,
And God shall bless you from above.

Anne Bradstreet
If for thy Father askt, say, thou hadst none;
And for thy Mother, she alas is poor,
Which caus'd her thus to send thee out of door.

Anne Bradstreet
Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.

Anne Bradstreet
Such cold mean flowers the spring puts forth betime,
Before the sun hath thoroughly heat the clime.

Anne Bradstreet
What to my Saviour shall I give
Who freely hath done this for me?
I'll serve him here whilst I shall live
And Loue him to Eternity

Anne Bradstreet
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.

Anne Bradstreet