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
“Solemnity has its limits, it invites derision. But irony is corrosive, it never ends. ” — P.F. Kluge 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
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
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
There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity. — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Ponder the significance of the responsibility the Lord has given to us. The Lord has counseled, "Let the solemnities of eternity rest… — Ezra Taft Benson 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
It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer's character, until we hesitate tolay them aside… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Am I horny enough to hump a bedpost?" Mica asked. "Not quite yet. Should I consult with you first, Doctor?" Sarcasm lay… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The most innocent man, pressed by the awful solemnities of public accusation and trial, many be incapable of supporting his own cause.… — William Rawle Copy Share Image
Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy… — Shaw Neilson 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
