Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat. — Philip Kearny Copy Share Image
I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of… — Kevin Watkins Copy Share Image
It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of… — Anonymous 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
But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sarah, I want to ask thee a solemn question. Did thee ever one single time have thy Bank book balance and thy… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
It is supposed by some that religion makes people solemn, takes the sunshine out of their life, the joy out of their… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Death is a solemn event for everyone. It is the winding up of all earthly plans and expectations. It is a separation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here, and some there, like a company… — Mary Rowlandson Copy Share Image
No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve,… — Joseph Story 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
“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
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
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
Love was a sacred garment, woven of a fabric so thin that it could not be seen, yet so strong that even… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge — William Cowper Copy Share Image
