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

~Anne Bradstreet

Topics: Authority Ax Bruise Edge Heavy Like Polish Than Wisdom Without

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

~Anne Bradstreet

Topics: Age Getting Improving Middle Middle Age Old Old Age Spending Time Youth

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If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

~Anne Bradstreet

Topics: Advance Chance Else Prove Say Stolen Well

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

~Anne Bradstreet

Topics: Adversity Christian Consider Him Makes Prosperous Secure State

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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 pleases.

~Anne Bradstreet

Topics: Affliction Anvil Beats Cast Frame Furnace God Good He Heated His Incapable Iron Men Pleases Sees Some Some Men Them Then Thoroughly Till Wrought

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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