Strike, if you will, but hear.
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As quoted in Familiar Quotations, 9th Edition (1894) edited by J. Bartlett, p. 723Themistocles
Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he were going to strike, Themistocles said, "Strike, if you will; but hear".
Plutarch
When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.
Robert Jordan
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.
Helen Keller
Normally, your wife can hear things that no one else on earth can hear. She can hear a dab of jam fall onto a carpet two rooms away. She can hear spilled coffee being furtively mopped up with a good bathtowel. She can hear dirt being tracked across a clean floor. She can hear you just thinking about doing something you shouldn't do. But get yourself stuck in a loft hatch and suddenly it is as if she has been placed in a soundproof chamber.
Bill Bryson
Strike—for your altars and your fires!
Strike—for the green graves of your sires!
God, and your native land!Fitz-Greene Halleck
Themistocles
Theobald, Lewis
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