Anne Bradstreet

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• Quote 3078

  Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach
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• Quote 3077

  If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee
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• Quote 3076

  There is no object that we see, no action that we do, no good that we enjoy, no evil that we feel of fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all
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• Quote 3075

  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
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• Quote 3074

  Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending
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• Quote 3073

  A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him consider.
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• Quote 3072

  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
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• Quote 3071

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