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1612–1672 England
Anne Bradstreet (March 20, 1612 – September 16, 1672) was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan figure in American Literature and notable for her large corpus of poetry, as well as personal writings published posthumously.
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
Leave not thy nest, thy dam and sire,
Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
Such cold mean flowers the spring puts forth betime,
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.
Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
A Spring returns, and they more youthful made;
"Sister," quoth Flesh, "what liv'st thou on
The principal might yield a greater sum,
If for thy Father askt, say, thou hadst none;
If ever two were one, then surely we.
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue,
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