Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness. — Daniel Webster 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
What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the… — Italo Calvino 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
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
I can't tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife,… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out.… — John Keble Copy Share Image
He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
When God's children pass under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, they know that through that shadow lies their passage to… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me… — Henry James Copy Share Image
In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be… — John Adams Copy Share Image
When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Selfishness so often is the basis of money problems, which are a very serious and real factor affecting the stability of family… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin… — William Shakespeare 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
Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls. — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn. — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word. — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“You must now--before God, Jon Stewart, and whoever's sleeping next to you (even if these entities are one and the same)--make a… — June Casagrande Copy Share Image
The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan. — Count of St. Germain Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er,… — Will Carleton Copy Share Image
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