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• For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Church Bells, Voice

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1078, Delphi Classics

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• Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

  Thomas Mann

  Wisdom, New Year, Time

  'The Magic Mountain' (1924) ch. 4, sect. 4 (translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter)

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• Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Running, Fake People

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.316, Hamilton Books

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• The time draws near the birth of Christ;
  The moon is hid; the night is still;
  The Christmas bells from hill to hill
  Answer each other in the mist.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Christmas, Healing, Moon

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.116, Broadview Press

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• I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.

  Mickey Rourke

  Animal, Light, Focus And Concentration

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• All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

  Thomas Lennon

  Curves, Littles, Way

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• The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

  Harold H. Greene

  Numbers, Government, Law

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• Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.

  Bret Harte

  Voice, Darkness, Break

  Bret Harte (1871). “That heathen Chinee, and other poems mostly humorous”, p.113

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• I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Running, Prayer, Light

  Song: Anthem

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• Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, New Year, Years

  In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

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• A thing resounds when it rings true, Ringing all the bells inside of you, Like a golden sky on a summer eve Your heart is tugging at your sleeve, And you cannot say why... There must be more

  Andrew Peterson

  Summer, Heart, Sky

  Song: More, Album: The Far Country

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• Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Fate, Voice

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• Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

  Charles Lamb

  Sweet, Time, Home

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• Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a bell tower, read a history of Byzantium, stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Madonna dei fusi.' You open, as in childhood, and--for a time--receive this world. There's visceral aspect, too--the huntress who is free. Free to go, free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth.

  Frances Mayes

  Morning, Memories, Home

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• It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony; if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Air, Shapes

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.51, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

  Matsuo Basho

  Flower, Sound, Temples

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• The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.

  Plautus

  Moving, Dumb, Rings

  "Trinummus", IV, 2, 162, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 67-69, 1922.

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• I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eye, Air, Jars

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.94, Hamilton Books

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• Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

  Thomas Hood

  Sweet, Air, Swim

  Thomas Hood (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes”, p.456

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• The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Teacher, Prayer, Law

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.165

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• I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Christmas, Sweet, Xmas

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.475, Library of America

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• If I tap that little bell, I can send you to a place where you will never hear the dogs bark.

  Edwin M. Stanton

  Dog, War, Littles

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• When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Truck, Backing Up

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth rings no bells.

  Laura Riding

  Truth, Rings

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• And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.

  Pablo Neruda

  Sky, Hymns, Rivers

  Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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