73 Quotes by Anne Bradstreet

If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant.

Compare with me, ye women, if you can

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not,Their names without a record are forgot,Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th' dustNor wit nor gold, nor buildings scape time's rust;But he whose name is graved in the white stoneShall last and shine when all of these are gone.

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.

My love is such that rivers cannot quench

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.

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

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

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