Quotes of Obscurely - somelinesforyou

“ Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does. ”

- Isabelle Eberhardt

“ Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, from offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously. ”

- Paul Wiener

“ As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting — the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began… ”

- Saul Bellow
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