How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You don’t make me sad, but solemn. You impair my incurable frivolity.” — Edouard Levé Copy Share Image
On solemn asses fall plush sinecures, So keep a straight face and sit tight on yours. — X. J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't… — Bill Owens Copy Share Image
Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or… — William James Copy Share Image
Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in… — Henry Twells Copy Share Image
Today solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is the grace and need of our time. Society will be restored and renewed when… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Together greet life's solemn real. Together own one glad ideal, Together laugh, together ache, And think one thought- "Each other's sake," And… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Days" Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distate for the more solemn services… — Samuel I. Prime Copy Share Image
He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he… — John Constable Copy Share Image
I don't seem to get solemn about it, and some people might not understand. That's why I never talk about it. I… — Carole Lombard Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is strange that there are times when I feel the stars are not at all solemn: they are secretly gay. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life. — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER AS BROTHERS-IN-ARMS. THEY DIED TOGETHER AND NOW THEY SLEEP SIDE BY SIDE. TO THEM WE HAVE A SOLEMN OBLIGATION. — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“…for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“There was something solemn in it- but love and religion would destroy that, whatever it was, the privacy of the soul.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Sweet is the day of sacred rest; No mortal cares shall seize my breast; O may my heart in tune be found… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Magic is not always serious or solemn. It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force. — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. — John Masefield Copy Share Image
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