Quotes 21 till 31 of 31.
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The pathway to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on yours, and that you may never experience the humiliation that the power of the American government has reduced me to, is the wish of him who, in his native forests, was once as proud as you.
The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833) -
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
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There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes - our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Pensees (1669) -
What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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You - poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are - I entreat to accept me as a husband.
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Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
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