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I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.
A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.
Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity.
The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.
The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life
One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.
I was discovered, or mentored, by Norman Lear, who plucked me from the grinder of relative obscurity.
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.
Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
As authors, we're all trying to fight against obscurity and outside distractions, but it's a tough battle.
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.
There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity.
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
I honestly feel like I've been mostly toiling in obscurity until a little bit after 'Day Of the Dog' came out.
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
The biggest problem almost all comics face is not piracy or demographics or any of that nonsense: it's obscurity.
I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.
I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.
Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.
If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.
'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity.
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
I was flavour of the year for a couple of years, and then, like everyone else, I faded into obscurity. I didn't car;, I loved it.
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
I owe a lot to Rosshan, who literally plucked me from obscurity as a keyboard performer and handed me the background score of 'Notebook.'
I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich.
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.