Wrought Quotes
193 Wrought quotes by 163 unique authors
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Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from…
— Mark Twain
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Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a…
— William Butler Yeats
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True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Slowly ... the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate…
— Anna Garlin Spencer
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Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and meditatively wild. They testify to an original, restless intelligence. He can cast his imagination into a woman's…
— Tony Hoagland
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The Light of the Lord's Transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even…
— Gregory Palamas
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The sin of Adam did not make the condemnation of all men merely possible; it was the ground of their actual condemnation. So the righteousness…
— Charles Hodge
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The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.
— George MacDonald
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'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box…
— Ezra Pound
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I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in…
— William Butler Yeats
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I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my…
— John Woolman
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Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.
— Berton Braley
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Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not…
— Frances Power Cobbe
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No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those…
— Sophocles
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That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden
— Peter McWilliams
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Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself…
— David Hare
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And if you love the light, then you come to the light to be proved, and tried whether your works be wrought in God. But…
— Margaret Fell
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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…
— Johannes Tauler
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An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room,…
— Jane Austen
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Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down…
— Saint Augustine
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People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.
— Harry S. Truman
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the physician, guides the surgeon, and it often victoriously applies the…
— Wilferd Peterson
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