Anne Bradstreet - Time Quotes

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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Anne Bradstreet

After a short time I changed my condition and was married, and came into this country, where I found a new world and new manners, at which my heart rose. But after I was convinced it was the way of God, I submitted to it and joined the church at Boston.

Anne Bradstreet

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things...

Anne Bradstreet

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

Anne Bradstreet

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

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

Anne Bradstreet