Famous Quotes | But one sound always rose above...

But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, for a moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells. - Johan Huizinga
Attribution: Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), Dutch historian. The Autumn of the Middle Ages, ch. 1 (1921, trans. 1995).

Categories: Historian, History

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