The bell strikes one.
We take no note of time,
But from its loss,
To give it then a tongue,
Is wise in man. [ Young ]

God stays long, but strikes at last. [ Proverb ]

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 ]

The plague of gold strikes far and near. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Humility disarms envy and strikes it dead. [ Collier ]

Heaven is not always angry when He strikes,
But most chastises those whom most He likes. [ Pomfret ]

Consider how the desperate fight;
Despair strikes wild, - but often fatal too -
And in the mad encounter wins success. [ Havard ]

No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure escape; brick-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes: what king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? [ William Shakespeare ]

Love strikes one hour - love. Those never loved
Who dream that they loved once. [ Elizabeth B. Browning ]

Back-wounding calumny the whitest virtue strikes. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that strikes my dog, would strike me if he durst. [ Proverb ]

Whenever he speaks, Heaven, how the listening throng
Dwell on the melting music of his tongue!
His arguments are emblems of his mien,
Mild but not faint, and forcing, though serene:
And when the power of eloquence he'd try,
Here lightning strikes you, there soft breezes sigh. [ Garth ]

The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest. [ Savage ]

God strikes with His finger, and not with all His arm. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

This sorrow's heavenly; It strikes where it doth love. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that strikes with his tongue must ward with his head. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands. [ Proverb ]

A sudden thought strikes me, let us swear eternal friendship. [ Canning ]

Happy he whose last hour strikes in the midst of his children. [ Grillparzer ]

Commonly he is not stricken again, who laughs when he strikes. [ Proverb ]

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains. [ Balthasar Gracian ]

God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct. [ Aughey ]

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. [ Saadi ]

Fortune is gentle to the lowly, and heaven strikes the humble with a light hand. [ Seneca ]

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea He made heavens, and to rivers fords. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly. [ Samuel Johnson ]

When a great man strikes out into a sudden irregularity, he needs not question the respect of a retinue. [ Collier ]

There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

The effect of good music is not caused by its novelty. On the contraiy, it strikes us more the more we are familiar with it. [ Goethe ]

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting. [ Cicero ]

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. [ Addison ]

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech. [ James A. Garfield ]

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with them hereafter. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to bit ourselves at last. [ William Penn ]

The lofty pine is oftenest agitated by the winds - high towers rush to the earth with a heavier fall - and the lightning most frequently strikes the highest mountains. [ Horace ]

Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning, flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an instant; humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its object in a genial and abiding light. [ Whipple ]

Yes, what I am to be everlastingly, I am growing to be now - now in this Present time so little thought of, this time which the sun rises and sets in, and the clock strikes in, and I wake and sleep in. [ William Mountford ]

The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him. [ T. W. Higginson ]

Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune. [ Rev. T. Adams ]

The man who makes a success of an important venture never waits for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticised. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. [ C. V. White ]