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Anne Bradstreet [1612-1672] American
Rank: 103
Poet (with poems)

Christian


Anne Bradstreet, née Dudley, was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first female writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She was also a prominent Puritan figure in American Literature.

Wisdom



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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.
101
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. Wisdom
102
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
103
A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
104
If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.
105

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