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Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet (March 20, 1612 – September 16, 1672), née Dudley, was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan figure in American Literature and notable for her large corpus of poetry, as well as personal writings published posthumously.

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If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.

Compare, Dear Love, Man, Men, Wife, Women

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

Authority, Authority And Power, Business, Edge, Leadership, Like

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

East, Gold, Hold, Riches, Whole

I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.

Wish, May, Sun, Set, Burn

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

Age, Improving, Middle, Spending, Youth

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 desires.

Anvil, Grace, Incapable, Iron, Men, Till

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.

Angler, Bait, Men, Satan, Sundry, Too Late

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.

Death, Down, Lying, Seen, Spring, Wrinkle

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!

Degrees, God, Long, Regards, Wickedness

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.

Fall, Feet, Gay, Plumes, Pride, Priding

To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings
Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun
For my mean Pen are too superior things.

Captains, Kings, Mean, Sing, War

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.

Age, Empty, Ignorant, Time, Youth

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Sweet, May, Littles, Honey, Words, Refresh

My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.

Famous Love, Love, Love Is, Ought, Pray, Rivers

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.

Advantage, Evil, Fear, Pious, Spiritual, Wise

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

Carping, Fit, Hand, Hands, Needle, Tongue

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

Consciences, Hands, Hard, Laborers, Sinners

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

Adversity, Christian, Secure, States

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

Beauty, Behold, Insensible, Seen, Tree, Wrinkles

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Good, Inheritance, Life, Wisdom

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