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• There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

  Thomas Browne

  Order, Giving, Understanding

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 9

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• If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.

  Plautus

  Hands, Suffering, Fists

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 762-63, Truculentus, IV. 2. 54, 1922.

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• The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Majesty, Scripture

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1767). “The Miscellaneous Works of Mr. J. J. Rousseau”, p.224

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• A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Eye, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.152

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• What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as commonplace, when in truth a blade of grass or a neuron in the brain is a greater miracle.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mean, Law, Miracle

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

  Brian Aldiss

  Artist, Roles, Break

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• No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Kings, Greatness

  William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.172, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Long, Bird

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 157

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• I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Children, Sunday

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• Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.

  Jesse Jackson

  Race, Blue, Profound

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• In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.

  William Hazlitt

  Views, Water, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2095, Delphi Classics

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• True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Flower, Fall, Roots

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Book II, section 43, 44 B.C..

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• Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

  William Cowper

  Sunshine, Fate, Blow

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.118

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• Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

  Orrin Hatch

  Rights, Hands, Order

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• The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dark, House, Null

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 60, 2006.

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• Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Baseball, Giving, Feelings

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• After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lot of strength and energy, and the American Red Cross suggests you go for the high protein items.

  Anne Sexton

  Challenges, Energy, Needs

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• One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

  Clare Short

  Balance, Quality, Speed

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• The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Justice, Doe, World

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1907). “The Measure of the Hours”

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• I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Eye, White, Boards

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

  Ayn Rand

  Guilt, Doctrine, Life Is

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.954, Penguin

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• Of every four words I write, I strike out three.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Writing, Editing, Three

  'Satire (2). A M. Moliére'

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• Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing.

  Paul Theroux

  Art, Generosity, Painting

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Thinking, Light

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• America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.

  Bobby Knight

  Helping Others, America, Important

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