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Quote by Anne Bradstreet
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we di

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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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. – Anne Bradstreet

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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. – Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe

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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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