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.
如果没有冬天，春天也不会如此可爱；如果没有经历苦难，幸福也不会让人感动。

——Anne Bradstreet, Meditations Divine and Moral
——安妮·布莱德斯特律