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    Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just,
    Stoop'd down serene and wrote them on the dust,
    Trod under foot, the sport of every wind,
    Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind,
    There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie,
    And grieved they could not 'scape the Almighty eye.

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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]

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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

by Alexander Pope Found in: Obscurity Quotes,
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Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent
Of odours in unhaunted deserts.

Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent
Of odours in unhaunted deserts.

by Edward Chamberlayne Found in: Obscurity Quotes,
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Yet was he but a squire of low degree.

Yet was he but a squire of low degree.

by Edmund Spenser Found in: Obscurity Quotes,
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

by Thomas Gray Found in: Obscurity Quotes,
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As night the life-inclining stars best shows,
So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

As night the life-inclining stars best shows,
So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

by George Chapman Found in: Obscurity Quotes,
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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

by Marshall Mcluhan Found in: Obscurity Quotes,
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown,
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not read more

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown,
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.

by Alexander Pope Found in: Obscurity Quotes,
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