Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes

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Trust me, I've read your German sage
To far more purpose e'er than you did;
You find it in his wisest page,
Whom God deludes is well deluded.

Arthur Hugh Clough
There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions;
Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations.

Arthur Hugh Clough
No graven images may be
Worshipped, except the currency.

Arthur Hugh Clough
Our ills are worse than at their ease
These blameless happy souls suspect,
They only study the disease,
Alas, who live not to detect.

Arthur Hugh Clough
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 Clough
How pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho!
How pleasant it is to have money.

Arthur Hugh Clough
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 Clough
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 Clough
Thou shalt have one God only; who
Would be at the expense of two?

Arthur Hugh Clough
Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo,
Merely a marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.

Arthur Hugh Clough
Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

Arthur Hugh Clough
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look, the land is bright.

Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.

Arthur Hugh Clough
There is no God, the wicked saith,
And truly it's a blessing,
For what He might have done with us
It's better only guessing.

Arthur Hugh Clough
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.

Arthur Hugh Clough
Each for himself is still the rule
We learn it when we go to school—
The devil take the hindmost, O!

Arthur Hugh Clough
Afloat. We move: Delicious! Ah,
What else is like the gondola?

Arthur Hugh Clough
For while the tired waves vainly breaking
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.

Arthur Hugh Clough
And almost everyone when age,
Disease, or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God,
Or something very like Him.

Arthur Hugh Clough
And if I should chance to run over a cad,
I can pay for the damage if ever so bad.

Arthur Hugh Clough
Good, too, Logic, of course; in itself, but not in fine weather.

Arthur Hugh Clough
So in the sinful streets, abstracted and alone,
I with my secret self held communing of mine own.

Arthur Hugh Clough