73 Quotes by Anne Bradstreet

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

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.

Thou ill-form,d offspring of my feeble brain . . .

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.

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

The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.

He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.

Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.

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.