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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station.

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.

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

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

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

Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind.

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.

The palpable obscure.

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

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

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

Yet was he but a squire of low degree.

He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen.

She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.

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

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.