Idealism is the last luxury that only the young possess.Tan Malaka
“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.”
“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
Poet · 1612 – 1672
English-born colonial American poet and the first writer from Britain's North American colonies to be published. Her collection The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America appeared in 1650.
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