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Quotes from Meditations Divine and Moral — Anne Bradstreet

1612–1672 England

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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)

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)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anne Bradstreet (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.