Anne Bradstreet

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

#inspirational

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we dod not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#inspirational

That when we live no more, We may live ever ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#religious #love

My love is such that rivers cannot quench ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#hyperbaton #love #sex #love

There is no object that we see, no action that we do, no good that we enjoy, no evil that we feel of fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#life

Compare with me, ye women, if you can ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#love #to-my-loving-husband #women #love

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

— Anne Bradstreet

#getting #improving #middle #middle age #old

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#anvil #beats #cast #frame #furnace

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#chance #else #i #i do #prove

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#christian #consider #him #makes #prosperous