Anne Bradstreet Quotes

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

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.

My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.

If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.

He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

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

I happy am, if well with you.

The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he’s laid.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet’s pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won’t advance,/ They’ll say it’s stolen, or else, it was by chance.

What to my Saviour shall I giveWho freely hath done this for me?I’ll serve him here whilst I shall liveAnd Loue him to Eternity