“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not…” — Anne Bradstreet

“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.”

Finding meaning in contrast and resilience through hardship · Prose meditation (Meditations Divine and Moral)

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Anne Bradstreet

About Anne Bradstreet

1612–16 September 1672

Anne Bradstreet was born Anne Dudley in 1612 in Northampton, England, into a family unusually well positioned to cultivate both religious seriousness and intellectual ambition. Her precise birth date is uncertain, though she was baptized on March 20, 1612. She entered the world during the reign of James I, in an…

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