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Anne Bradstreet: There is no...

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There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evill that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.

Source: Meditations Devine and Moral, The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse, ed. John Harvard Ellis, 1867.
-- Anne Bradstreet, (NA 1612?-1672), US poet; Her Verse, 1650, was considered the first significant literary work in Colonial America.


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