Anne Bradstreet Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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Biography

Type: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: 1612
Died: 1672

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