Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.”
-- Arthur Hugh CloughSource : "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)
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“If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.”
-- Arthur Hugh CloughSource : 'Say not the struggle naught availeth' (1855)
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“Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.”
-- Arthur Hugh CloughSource : 'The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich' (1848) pt. 4, l. 159
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“Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.”
-- Arthur Hugh CloughSource : "The Latest Decalogue" l. 11 (1862)
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“Be but faithful, that is all; Go right on, and close behind thee There shall follow still and find thee Help, sure help.”
-- Arthur Hugh CloughSource : Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.127
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“Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.”
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“This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won't, and we can't mend it.”
-- Arthur Hugh CloughSource : 'Dipsychus' (1865) sc. 5
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“Afloat.We move: Delicious! Ah, What else is like the gondola?”
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“As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried.”
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“Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.”
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“Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying years this lesson still convey), 'Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise, And not to use, but still correct one's eyes.”
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“O tell me, friends, while yet we part, And heart can yet be heard of heart, O tell me then, for what is it Our early plan of life we quit; From all our old intentions range, And why does all so wholly change? O tell me, friends, while yet we part!”
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“No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.”
-- Arthur Hugh CloughSource : "The Latest Decalogue" l. 3 (1862)
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“Thou shalt have one God only: who Would be at the expense of two?”
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“Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web.”
-- Arthur Hugh CloughSource : Arthur Hugh Clough (1865). “Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough”, p.40
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“Each for himself is still the rule We learn it when we go to school The devil take the hindmost, O!”
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“Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on; Earth, air, and sun and skies combine To promise all that's kind and fair: But thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, contain thyself, and bear.”
-- Arthur Hugh CloughSource : Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.151
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“I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh, far away, And childish loves, and childish cares, and a child's own buoyant gladness Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadness; And feelings frozen up full long, and thoughts of long ago, Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow.”
-- Arthur Hugh CloughSource : Arthur Hugh Clough (1951). “Poems”, Oxford University Press
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“I sit at my table en grand seigneur , And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one's self, of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money.”
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“When panting sighs the bosom fill, And hands by chance united thrill At once with one delicious pain The pulses and the nerves of twain; When eyes that erst could meet with ease, Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun Ecstatic conscious unison, The sure beginnings, say, be these Prelusive to the strain of love Which angels sing in heaven above?”
-- Arthur Hugh CloughSource : "Love and Reason". Poem by Arthur Hugh Clough, 1844.
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“Loving if the answering breast Seem not to be thus possessed, Still in hoping have a care; If it do, beware, beware! But if in yourself you find it, Above all things mind it, mind it!”
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“Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and by the letter Duty done is duty done Do it, Time is on the wing!”
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“Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.”
-- Arthur Hugh CloughSource : Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas Burbidge (1849). “Ambarvalia: Poems”, p.14
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“Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.”
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“There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions; Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations.”
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“Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.”
-- Arthur Hugh CloughSource : 'The Latest Decalogue' (1862)
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“Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.”
-- Arthur Hugh CloughSource : "The Latest Decalogue" l. 15 (1862)
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“It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so: That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip Thou dost not fall.”
-- Arthur Hugh CloughSource : Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.53
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“Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?”
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“Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.”
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