A Quote by Geoffrey Chaucer

First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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First Taught Wrought

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Geoffrey Chaucer
English - Poet
1343 - October 25, 1400

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

Geoffrey Chaucer

I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?

Laurence Sterne

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

John Dryden

The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.

Henry Ward Beecher

Whatever littleness and vanity is to be observed in the minds of women, it is, like the cruelty of butchers, a temper that is wrought into them by that life which they are taught and accustomed to lead.

William Law

One thing I've always been taught at the defensive end is you hit first. In life, you throw the first punch; you don't get punched first. It's the same on defense: You've got to hit first. Do your work early. That's what I was always taught. If you don't do your work early, you're done.

Draymond Green

Babies aren't born knowing differences in color, gender, religions. They're taught those things. They're taught them at home. They're taught in the schools. They're taught in the churches. They're taught in the mosques, in the synagogues.

Geraldine Ferraro

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

Henry David Thoreau

it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne "It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip

Nora Roberts

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

Amy Tan

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

Georges Bernanos

If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the Man Christ without, and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the word of God.