Quotes from Anne Bradstreet

There's wealth enough, I need no more, Farewell, my pelf, farewell, my store. The world no longer let me love, My hope and treasure lies above.

Preserve, O Lord, from stormes and wrack, Protect him there, and bring him back.

If ever two were one, than we.

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

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 desires.

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

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

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

My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.

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