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Letter "O" » obscure
«Be obscure clearly.»
Author: E. B. White
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obscure
«God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
God,
Universe
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«A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.»
«. . . I would stand,If the night blackened with a coming storm,Beneath some rock, listening to notes that areThe ghostly language of the ancient earth,Or make their dim abode in distant winds.Thence did I drink the visionary power;And deem not profitless those fleeting moodsOf shadowy exultation: not for this,That they are kindred to our purer mindAnd intellectual life; but that the soul,Remembering how she felt, but what she feltRemembering not, retains an obscure senseOf possible sublimity. . . .»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
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«Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Acquaintance
| Keywords:
acquaintance, famous, intimate, obscure, slight
«Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
coarsened, coarsens, concrete, obscure, unconscious
«In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.»
«A Constitution should be short and obscure»
«Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.»
«For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book so manifestly obscure, disorderly, and contradictory can be His work»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Books,
Perfection
| Keywords:
contradictories, contradictory, deity, disorderly, manifestly, obscure, permit, work permit
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