Inspirational Quotes by Anne Bradstreet (American Poet)

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
—Anne Bradstreet
Topics: Youth

By art he gladly found what he did seek,
A full requital of his striving pain.
Art can do much, but this maxim’s most sure:
A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.
—Anne Bradstreet
Topics: Art

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
—Anne Bradstreet
Topics: Wives, Marriage

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
—Anne Bradstreet
Topics: Control, Authority, Leadership

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
Topics: Seasons, Change, Spring, Wealth, Difficulty, Adversity, Winter

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
Topics: Justice, Trials

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