It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects...… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the… — William James Copy Share Image
The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
God never gives dominion to any creature which has not received his image. His image is love. Other things belong to God;… — George Matheson Copy Share Image
My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent.… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found...… — Artemisia Gentileschi Copy Share Image
Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The Human body is sacred - the veritable tabernacle of the Divine Spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of… — Stephen L. Richards Copy Share Image
I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to wither; but we know that May is one day to have its… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The need to proclaim Christ boldly and courageously is a continuing priority for the Church; indeed it is a solemn duty laid… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
You're wonderful. So full of life and excitement. The priests and servants of the palace, they wear colors, but there's no color… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Those little children have not yet any understanding to desire His blessing; but when they are presented to Him, He gently and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
If the minority, and a small one too, is suffered to dictate to the majority, after measures have undergone the most solemn… — George Washington Copy Share Image
![“You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people on Earth as there were when I started making television. How can the Earth accommodate them? When people, including politicians, set their faces against looking at the…” quote by David Attenborough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6ec/david-attenborough-2396_accommodate_you-ve-got-to-be-fairly-solemn-about-the_2678424.jpg)
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