OBSCURITY

Related Subjects: Concealment, Darkness, Fog, Mystery, Secrecy

1. Obscurity often brings safety.—AESOP, The Tree and the Road
   

2. Now we see through a glass, darkly.—Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:12
   

3. I give the fight up; let there be an end,
   A privacy, an obscure nook for me,
   I want to be forgotten even by God.—BROWNING, Paracelsus
   

4. Of all outward evils Obscurity is perhaps in itself the least.—CARLYLE, On Boswell's Life of Johnson

5. Thy greatest praise had been to live unknown.—CHARLES CHURCHILL, The Rosciad
   

6. If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me,
   Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be!—W. S. GILBERT, Patience
   

7. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast
   The little tyrant of his fields withstood;
   Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest,
   Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.—THOMAS GRAY, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
   

8. Full many a gem of purest ray serene
   The dark unf athom'd caves of ocean bear:
   Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
   And waste its sweetness on the desert air.—THOMAS GRAY, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
   

9. You banter me by discoursing obscurely.—HORACE, Satires
   

10. He has lived well who has lived obscurely.—OVID, Tristia
    

11. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown,
    Thus unlamented let me die;
    Steal from the world, and not a stone
    Tell where I lie.—POPE, Ode on Solitude
    

12. A long list of the illustrious obscure.—SHELLEY, Adonais
    

13. Sweet were the days when I was all unknown.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King
    

14. Obscurity is the realm of error.—VAUVENARGUES