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OBSCURITY quotes
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.
Obscurity and innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor in contact with the world.
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.
Objects imperfectly discerned take forms from the hope or fear of the beholder.
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound! —The greatest part of abstract terms are shadows that hide a vacuum.
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity.
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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