Top Solemn Quotes
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
William James
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
William Bennett
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Queen Victoria
Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
Jane Byrne
It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.
Simon Greenleaf
George Will 
Lewis Carroll 
Robert A. Heinlein 
Henry Brooks Adams 
Olive Schreiner 
Aldous Huxley 
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When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.
Joe Wilson 
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You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
Pope John Paul II
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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 deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.
Joseph Story
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
Gore Vidal
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One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.
Phoebe Cary
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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
George Will
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We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear.
Elias Hicks
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
Pierre Charles Baudelaire
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I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
Michael Stipe
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Popular Solemn Authors
George EliotAldous HuxleyWilliam JamesGeorge W. BushErnest HemingwayGore VidalRobert A. HeinleinPope John Paul IIRobertson DaviesMichael StipeArthur HendersonJane ByrneLewis CarrollJim RyunGeorge Will
Charles EastmanBill OwensRobert Dale OwenKarl Philipp MoritzElias HicksSimon GreenleafNorman DouglasKenneth GrahameQueen VictoriaWilliam BennettOlusegun ObasanjoJohn MasefieldHenry Brooks AdamsThomas de QuinceyJoe Wilson
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