34 Quotes by Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet was an English-American poet, and one of the first female writers to be published in colonial America. Her poetry was deeply personal, exploring themes of love, loss, and faith, and it was widely praised for its beauty and sensitivity. Bradstreet's work paved the way for other women writers, and her legacy continues to inspire poets and readers today. (Bio)
Anne Bradstreet Quotes
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. (Meaning)
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish. (Meaning)
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
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
Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
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.
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.
Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.
I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
That when we live no more, We may live ever
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.
My hope and treasure lies above
O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,
We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
I happy am, if well with you.
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.
Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.
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.
But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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!
Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
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.
The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.
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 Quotes
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