“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 ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.”
Sophocles
“Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.”
Bible
“But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.”
“And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.”
“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
Herodotus
“First he wrought, and afterward he taught.”
Geoffrey Chaucer
“People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo”
Harry S Truman