“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.”
“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
“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”
Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet“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."]”
Anne Bradstreet, The Works of 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“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”
Anne Bradstreet“Youth is the time of getting middle age of improving and old age of spending.”
Anne Bradstreet“Sweet words are like honey a little may refresh but too much gluts the stomach.”
Anne Bradstreet“If ever two were one then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife then thee.”
Anne Bradstreet“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.”
Anne Bradstreet“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge fitter to bruise than to polish.”
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