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A Spring returns, and they more youthful made;
But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
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Let Greeks be Greeks, and Women what they are,
Men have precedency, and still excel.
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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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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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My age I will not once lament,
But sing, my time so near is spent.
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The principal might yield a greater sum,
Yet handled ill, amounts but to this crumb;
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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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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.
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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.
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Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
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Such cold mean flowers the spring puts forth betime,
Before the sun hath thoroughly heat the clime.
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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
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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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Anne Bradstreet
Born:
March 20, 1612
Died:
September 16, 1672
(aged 60)
Bio:
Anne Bradstreet was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. She was also a prominent Puritan figure in American Literature.
Known for:
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650)
Works of Anne Bradstreet in prose and verse
To my husband and other poems
Early New England Meditative Poetry
The poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet
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