Quotes from Anne Bradstreet

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

That when we live no more, We may live ever

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

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!

I happy am, if well with you.

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.

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

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

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.

Such cold mean flowers the spring puts forth betime, Before the sun hath thoroughly heat the clime.

Leave not thy nest, thy dam and sire, Fly back and sing amidst this choir.

What to my Saviour shall I give Who freely hath done this for me? I'll serve him here whilst I shall live And Loue him to Eternity

The world no longer let me Love, My hope and Treasure lies Above.

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.

He that hath nothing to feed on but vanity and lies must needs lie down in the bed of sorrow.

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.

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

The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.

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

After some time I fell into a lingering sickness like a consumption, together with lameness, which correction I saw the Lord sent to humble and try me and do me good: and it was not altogether ineffectual.

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!

What to my Saviour shall I give Who freely hath done this for me? I'll serve him here whilst I shall live And Love him to Eternity.

I sought him whom my Soul did Love, With tears I sought him earnestly; He bow'd his ear down from Above, In vain I did not seek or cry. My hungry Soul he fill'd with Good, He in his Bottle put my tears, My smarting wounds washed in his blood, And banished thence my Doubts and fears.

"Sister," quoth Flesh, "what liv'st thou on Nothing but Meditation?