Quotes with obscurity

  • My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
  • Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
  • The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

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  • Thomas Hardy Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Joseph Addison Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • James Thurber Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Napoleon Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Aldous Huxley I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bernard Bailyn It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.
    Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 160
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Plutarch Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Edward Gibbon My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • David Lehman Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.
    David Lehman
     
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  • Mark Twain Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Aesop Obscurity brings safety.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Vauvenargues Obscurity is the realm of error.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Brigham Young The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him vision, and led him along, guided and directed him in his obscurity.
    Source: First Vision Journal of Discourses 8:354. (March 3, 1861)
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Adrienne Rich The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • George Herbert Allen The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
    George Herbert Allen
    American football coach (1918 - 1990)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Brenda Laurel When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own cultural peculiarities, including obscurity for its own sake. You give those guys a website for a banking institution and they screw it up, because they are designing for themselves.
    Brenda Laurel
    American video game designer and researcher (1950 - )
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  • Brian Tracy You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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