Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
More Quotes from Anne Bradstreet:
My God,Uphold my fainting soul.
Anne Bradstreet
In every Age I've found much vanity.
Anne Bradstreet
Yet live I shall, this life's but small,
in place of highest bliss,
Where I shall have all I can crave,
no life is like to this.
Anne Bradstreet
But more my age, the more is my defect.
Anne Bradstreet
If not, yet wealth, Nobility can gain.
Anne Bradstreet
Man at his best estate is vanity.
Anne Bradstreet
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