"[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I was always waiting for that bell."
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"If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks."
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"You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?"
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"But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror."
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"A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like."
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"the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end"
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"In every single 'Tinker Bell' movie, I feel like there's a message that I'm proud to communicate with kids."
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"When the bell rings, your trainer can't help you."
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"To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell."
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"God comes to see without a bell."
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"In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell."
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"Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often."
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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."
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"Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live."
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