Top 16 Anne Bradstreet Quotes



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.”]

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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 wel

 

If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant.

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

If ever two were one then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife then thee.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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