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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.

— Anne Bradstreet Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)

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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

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

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Leave not thy nest, thy dam and sire,
Fly back and sing amidst this choir.

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

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