<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Obscurity - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them on the dust,  Trod ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44764]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The palpable obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The palpable obscure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. [Lat., Bene qui latuit, bene vixit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44766]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. [Lat., Bene qui latuit, bene vixit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity. [Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44767]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity. [Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44768]]></link><description><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die;  Steal from the world, and not a stone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die;  Steal from the world, and not a stone   Tell where I lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet was he but a squire of low degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet was he but a squire of low degree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen. [Lat., Eo magis praefulgebat quod non videbatur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44771]]></link><description><![CDATA[He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen. [Lat., Eo magis praefulgebat quod non videbatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove,  A maid whom there were none to praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44772]]></link><description><![CDATA[She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove,  A maid whom there were none to praise   And very few to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me,  I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44759]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44761]]></link><description><![CDATA[As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away,  The post of honor is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away,  The post of honor is a private station.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17532</guid></item></channel></rss>