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• It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Passion, Soul

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.7

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• The plague of gold strikes far and near.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gold, Plague

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1852). “The Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.273

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• I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mean, Numbers, People

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”, Harcourt

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• I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.

  Ovid

  Weapons, Hard, Powerless

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• When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

  Ovid

  Lightning, Doe

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• With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Distance, Insecure, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (2015). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh”, p.161, The Floating Press

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• Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation.

  Washington Irving

  Art, Struggle, Adversity

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• Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!

  George Santayana

  Hands, Here I Am, Grace

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• Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.

  Robert Browning

  Lasts, Hours, Last Day

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• Truth is truth howe'er it strike.

  Robert Browning

  Truth, Truth Is

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.61, Wildside Press LLC

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• war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Hurt, War, Thug

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Ideas, Roots, May

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• I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Blow, Two Sides

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4591, Delphi Classics

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• It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Loss, Lightning, Treasure

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Edward Stowe (1889). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled from Her Letters and Journals”

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• There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.

  Faith Baldwin

  Fishing, Stupidity, Bait

  Faith Baldwin (1934). “Honor bound”

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• Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.

  Francis Quarles

  Cutting, Tree, Soldier

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.32

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• Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Hypocrite, Men

  Joseph Hall (1837). “Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.113

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• A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

  Erica Jong

  Reading, Book, Boxes

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• Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.

  Rebecca West

  War, Hands, Psychology

  Rebecca West (1952). “The meaning of treason”

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• Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

  Isaac Watts

  Imagination, Mind, May

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• Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

  Hannah More

  Long, Action, Common

  Hannah More (1809). “Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education: With a View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent Among Women of Rank and Fortune”

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• There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

  Joseph Joubert

  Window

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• The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.

  Barbara Walters

  Talking, People, Perfect

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• Wages? You want to be wage slaves? Answer me that! Of course not. What is it that makes wage slaves? Wages! I want you to be free. Strike off your chains! Strike up the band! Strike three you're out! Remember, there's nothing like Liberty, except Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. Be free, now and forever. One and individual. One for all and all for me, and tea for two and six for a quarter.

  Groucho Marx

  Wisdom, Two, Forever

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• I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.

  Neil Simon

  New York, Home, Character

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