Creative Quotations from . . .
Anne Bradstreet
(1612?-1672) born on NA
US poet. "Her "Verse," 1650, was considered the first significant literary work in Colonial America."
 
   
F
And he that knowes the most, cloth still bemoan
He knows not all that here is to be known."

R
"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edg[e], fitter to bruise than polish."
A
"Thou ill-form,d offspring of my feeble brain . . ."
N
"There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evill that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious."
K
"A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""The Vanity of All Worldly Things," "Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning," 1678."
R: ""The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse," XII, ed. John Harvard Ellis, 1867."
A: ""From the Author to her Book," "Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning," 1678."
N: ""Meditations Devine and Moral," "The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse," ed. John Harvard Ellis, 1867."
K: ""The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse," VIII, ed. John Harvard Ellis, 1867."
   



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