Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory! — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Solemnity has its limits, it invites derision. But irony is corrosive, it never ends. ” — P.F. Kluge Copy Share Image
Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. (1 Peter 5:8)” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must bear in recollection that the sentiment of the picture is that of solemnity, not gaiety & nothing garish, but the… — John Constable Copy Share Image
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“His words cost him so much, she thought, not like hers that just came dancing out of the air and went back… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us,… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“There has never been upon the earth a generation of free men and women. It is not yet time to write a… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
From our sorrow we might seek out the sweetness and the good that is often associated with and peculiar to our challenge.… — Richard C. Edgley Copy Share Image
“I tutored myself in the art of solemnity, kept my euphoria private, and adopted a serious demeanour in keeping with everyone else… — Judith Kinghorn Copy Share Image
From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
