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«The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.»
«My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
decent, licentious, obscurities, obscurity, passages, text
«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.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
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Satisfaction
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beneficial, care for, obscurities, obscurity, pleased, poverty, so far
«Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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Passion,
Poetry
| Keywords:
dominion, obscurity
«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?»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
apartment, flicker, flickering, lofty, obscurity
«Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.»
«the silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God's secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body's elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed»
«Obscurity and competence - that is the life that is best worth living»
«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»
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