"There is no object that we see; no……" — 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."
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Anne Bradstreet
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29 Quotes by Anne Bradstreet
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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into…
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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.
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Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually…
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I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.
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I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits,
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To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things,
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Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.
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I happy am, if well with you.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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