Quotations on Obscurity | Quotations: 7 | Pages: 1
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by Thomas Gray
(December 26, 1716 - July 30, 1771) |
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. |
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by Alexander Pope
(May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744) |
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. |
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by Mark Twain
(November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910) |
Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. |
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by William Wordsworth
(April 7, 1770 - April 23, 1850) |
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. |
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by John Milton
(December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674) |
The palpable obscure. |
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by Alexander Pope
(May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744) |
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie. |
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by Samuel Johnson
(September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784) |
Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind. |
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