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Obscurity Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man…
- 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…
More Obscurity Quotes
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star… — Victor Hugo
- And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
- We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of… — C. D. Darlington
- I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else. — Robert De Niro
- You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions… — Cyrus the Great
- It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize… — Jean-Georges Noverre