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“He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)
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“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 quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

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“If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves”
John Kenneth Galbraith quotes

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“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 quotes (British Novelist and Poet who set much of his work in Wessex, an imaginary county in southwestern England. 1840-1928)

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“Never try to impress people with the profundity of your thought by the obscurity of your language. Whatever has been thoroughly thought through can be stated simply.”


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“Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting”
Edmund Burke quotes (British Statesman and Philosopher, 1729-1797)
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“Obscurity and competence - that is the life that is best worth living”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? / Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? / Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? / And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.”
Bible quotes Book: Bible quotes

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“It is not easy for men to emerge from obscurity if their qualities are thwarted by narrow means at home.”
Juvenal quotes

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“Of the innumerable authors whose performances are thus treasured up in magnificent obscurity (in a library), most are forgotten, because they never deserved to be remembered”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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obscurity antonyms: clarity, clearness, lucidity, prominence.

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