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«All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability»
Author: David Hume (Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher) | Keywords: cautious, hypothesis, obscurity, probability, supported, whatsoever
«If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.»
Author: Emily Bronte (Author, Novelist, Poet) | About: Work | Keywords: obscurity, work in
«Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.»
Author: James Thurber (Writer) | Keywords: blunt, Clair, en clair, Famous Or, not famous, obscurity, satire, witty
«If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith | Keywords: in Vietnam, obscurity, Vietnam
«Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | About: Experience, Poetry | Keywords: complain, consciences, examine, genuinely, modern, obscurities, obscurity, occasions, profoundly, shared
«I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.»
Author: Aldous Huxley (Critic, Novelist) | Keywords: celery, genuineness, In The Dark, losing, obscurities, obscurity
«It is not easy for men to emerge from obscurity if their qualities are thwarted by narrow means at home.»
Author: Juvenal | Keywords: emerge, obscurity, thwarted
«Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor, General, Politician) | About: Glory | Keywords: fleeting, fleets, glory, obscurities, obscurity, The Fleet
«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»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Manners, Violence | Keywords: gulf, Gulf of, obscurity, precipice, precipices, predecessors, pushing, push away, sink, sink in, swept, Swept Away
«Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.»
Author: Thomas Hardy (Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: deserving, obscurity
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