Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet, née Dudley, was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first female writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She was also a prominent Puritan figure in American Literature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 March 1612
CountryUnited States of America
adversity prosperity spring taste
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.
brain brains feeble offspring thou
Thou ill-form,d offspring of my feeble brain . . .
spring adversity winter
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
wish sun may
I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.
sweet may littles
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
lying treasure
My hope and treasure lies above
done eternity saviour
What to my Saviour shall I giveWho freely hath done this for me?I'll serve him here whilst I shall liveAnd Loue him to Eternity
together lasts firsts
Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.
death lying men
But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
death love-is men
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can I prize thy love more than whole mines of Gold. Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold repay, Then while we live, in love let's so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever.
leadership business authority-and-power
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
greek
Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
wise spiritual evil
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.
memorable chance stolen
If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.