Solemn Quotes

294 Solemn quotes by 223 unique authors

How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks… — Robert Browning
So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each… — John Milton
PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous,… — Ambrose Bierce
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it. — Karl Philipp Moritz
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a… — William Henry Hudson
The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge — William Cowper
We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as… — C.S. Lewis
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. — Abraham Lincoln
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was… — Joseph Story
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth… — Henry Timrod
I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts… — Parley P. Pratt
Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use… — Henry Highland Garnet
The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last. — Francois-Noel Babeuf
I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies,… — Ansel Adams
Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name… — Abraham Lincoln
I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat. — Philip Kearny
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat; The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet; The brave and fallen few. On Fame's… — Unknown Author
Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and… — Annie Dillard
There are few people who think what a solemn thing it is to be a Christian. I guess there is not a believer in the… — Charles Spurgeon
Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan. — Count of St. Germain
Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our… — Evelyn Underhill
SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat… — Ambrose Bierce
Not all Masons are obligated on the Christian Bible. Masonry is universal and men of every creed are eligible for membership so long as they… — George Washington
No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend… — Joseph Story
No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend… — Joseph Story

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