Quotes by Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet

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

Adversity

Christian

States

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

Authority And Power

Business

Leadership

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he’s laid.

Death

Lying

Men

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

Anger

Fire

Wind

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.

Eye

Mean

Poverty

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

Fit

Hands

Tongue

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet’s pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won’t advance,/ They’ll say it’s stolen, or else, it was by chance.

Female

Hands

Tongue

I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.

May

Sun

Wish

If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.

Dear Love

Men

Wife

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

Action

Chance

Memorable

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Hands

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Quotes by Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet

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

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

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he’s laid.

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

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.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet’s pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won’t advance,/ They’ll say it’s stolen, or else, it was by chance.

I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.

If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.

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

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