Obscurity Quotes
These are some of the best 'Obscurity' quotations and sayings.
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Blindness of heart beclouds the understanding, conscience, memory, and indeed all the intellectual powers, and throws a mischievous obscurity over theological, moral, and even classical science.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
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Full many a gem of purest ray serene the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mold a pin, or fabricate a nail!
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me, I want to be forgotten even by God.
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Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity.
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Objects imperfectly discerned take forms from the hope or fear of the beholder.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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There is no defence against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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