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“To make a covenant with the Lord to always keep His commandments is a serious obligation, and to renew that covenant by partaking of the sacrament is equally serious. The solemn moments of thought while the sacrament is being served have great significance. They are moments of self-examination, introspection, self-discernment...a time to reflect and to resolve.”

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Author:Howard W. Hunter

“[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.”

Ifs Men Looks Persons Faces Serious Expression Expected Miserable Unfair Ache Solemn Beam Serious Person

Author:Queen Elizabeth II

“Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.”

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Author:Russell Baker

“I desire before I leave the world, as my best legacy to my family,, my serious, solemn advice, to make choice of my God for their God. He has been my father's God, and the God of your Mother's predecessors. I solemnly charge you to make it your first care to seek after peace with God, and being reconciled, to make it your study to please God in all things.”

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Author:Robert Dabney

“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.”

Writing May Serious Bloody Solemn Owl Hawks Solemnity Buzzards

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“Great design is serious, not solemn”

Design Serious Solemn Great Design

Author:Paula Scher

“Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going and doing and crusading and worrying.”

Worry Serious One Day Fierce Solemn

Book:I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman

Source: I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman

“The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian is a holy joy; the happiness of the Christian is a serious happiness. ... it is a solemn joy, it is a holy joy, it is a serious happiness; so that, though he is grave and sober-minded and serious, he is never cold and prohibitive.”

Christian Joy Serious Cold Holy Graves Superficial Sober Solemn

Author:Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“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.”

Ifs Religious Attitude Serious Glad Curse Scream Tenderness Solemn Snickers

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Serious journalism need not be solemn.”

Needs Serious Journalism Solemn

Author:Russell Baker