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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. ↗

— Herodotus

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All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times. ↗

— John Woolman

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Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught. ↗

— John Dryden

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American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

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In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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What God hath wrought? ↗

— Samuel Morse

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Sometimes I get so wrought up being brushed, poked and pinned all day. ↗

— Carol Alt

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Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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