#obscure

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

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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. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#day #deal #effort #every #every day

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#away #because #change #dream #duties

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#infinity #nature #obscure #permanent #shares

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#brief #i #obscure #strive

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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