Tolling Quotes
8 quotes by 7 authors
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Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off…
— Celia Thaxter
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I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on…
— Anais Nin
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Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting…
— Carl Sagan
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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton,…
— A. N. Wilson
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She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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And upside down in air were towers Tolling reminiscent bells, thatkept the hours And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The sexton, tolling his bell at noon, Deems not that great Napoleon Stops his horse, and lists withdelight, Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Tolling Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 8 Tolling Quotes as follows: