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

— 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.

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,
Fly back and sing amidst this choir.

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

Such cold mean flowers the spring puts forth betime,
Before the sun hath thoroughly heat the clime.

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