Quotes About Anne Bradstreet

#1. 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!

Anne Bradstreet

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

Anne Bradstreet

#3. But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

Anne Bradstreet

#4. Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

Anne Bradstreet

#5. Compare with me, ye women, if you can

Anne Bradstreet

#6. Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

Anne Bradstreet

#7. 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

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

Anne Bradstreet

#9. Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

Anne Bradstreet

#10. Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.

Anne Bradstreet

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

Anne Bradstreet

#12. 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

Anne Bradstreet

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

Anne Bradstreet

#14. I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.

Anne Bradstreet

#15. 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.

Anne Bradstreet

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

Anne Bradstreet

#17. 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.

Anne Bradstreet

#18. He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.

Anne Bradstreet

#19. 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.

Anne Bradstreet

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

Anne Bradstreet

#21. 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

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

Anne Bradstreet

#23. There is no object that we see, no action that we do, no good that we enjoy, no evil that we feel of fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all.

Anne Bradstreet

#24. 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

#25. Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

Anne Bradstreet

#26. And although thus short, we shorten many ways,
Living so little while we are alive;
In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delight
So unawares comes on perpetual night,
And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight.

Anne Bradstreet

#27. The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.

Anne Bradstreet

#28. 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

#29. I happy am, if well with you.

Anne Bradstreet

#30. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
[Meditations Divine and Moral]

Anne Bradstreet

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

Anne Bradstreet

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

Anne Bradstreet

#33. Let such as say our sex is void of reason,
Know it is slander now but once was treason.

Anne Bradstreet

#34. The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.

Anne Bradstreet

#35. 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.

Anne Bradstreet

#36. My love is such that rivers cannot quench

Anne Bradstreet

#37. My hope and treasure lies above

Anne Bradstreet

#38. We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

Anne Bradstreet