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First he wrought, and afterward he taught. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#taught #wrought

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

— John Dryden

#born #genius #may #must #never

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. ↗

— Helen Keller

#best #know #life #miracle #never

You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought. ↗

— Richard Blackmore

#greater #invention #mind #motion #motions

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#anvil #beats #cast #frame #furnace

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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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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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

#american culture #between #crime #culture #devastation

What God hath wrought? ↗

— Samuel Morse

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