If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: i… - Anne Bradstreet

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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

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Anne Bradstreet (March 20, 1612 – September 16, 1672) was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan figure in American Literature and notable for her large corpus of poetry, as well as personal writings published posthumously.

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Birth Name: Ann Dudley

Alternative Names: Ann Dudley Bradstreet • Anne Dudley Bradstreet • Anne Dudley • Anne Broadstreet

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A Spring returns, and they more youthful made;
But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

"Sister," quoth Flesh, "what liv'st thou on
Nothing but Meditation?

If for thy Father askt, say, thou hadst none;
And for thy Mother, she alas is poor,
Which caus'd her thus to send thee out of door.

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

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