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A name is a solemn thing.
Serious journalism need not be solemn.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.
We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play.
Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.
It is my solemn duty to be an ally to the trans community.
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire.
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Death sanctifies. It's solemn enough to make its own shrine, where it happens.
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.
Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.
Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
Expressions of solemn testimony have long been important to the children of God upon the earth.
Safeguarding life at every stage is a solemn responsibility, and one Hoosiers entrusted me to uphold.
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
Safeguarding life at every stage is a solemn responsibility, one that Hoosiers have entrusted me to uphold.
One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.
Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
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.
If elected president, it will be my solemn duty to always hold myself accountable to the American people. They deserve nothing less.
The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out.
It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.
For a lawyer to shade or slant his legal advice to advance a private agenda is among the gravest betrayals of his solemn duty as an attorney.
We owe these heroes a great deal - it is our solemn responsibility to ensure that all veterans receive the care and respect they have earned.
A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.
Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.
The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings - Thomas Jefferson no longer lives!
It should be underscored that our goal is not, and should not, be a crusade against the ICC but a solemn call for the organisation to take Africa's concerns seriously.
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Trump took a solemn oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. After his years in the job, he ought to know something about that document.
The U.S. government has a sacred, solemn, inviolable obligation to enforce the laws of the United States to stop illegal immigration and to secure and protect the borders.
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 that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
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.