Arthur Hugh Clough Short Quotes

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No graven images may be
Worshipped, except the currency.

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

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

Arthur Hugh Clough
That out of sight is out of mind is true of most we leave behind.

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We are so prone to these things with our terrible notions of duty.

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

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

Arthur Hugh Clough
Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat,
When it's so lucrative to cheat.

Arthur Hugh Clough
'Tis better to have fought and lost,
Than never to have fought at all.

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Thou shalt not covet, but tradition
Approves all forms of competition.

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

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

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

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

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

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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
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 Clough
Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market;
Knowledge needful for all, yet cannot be had for the asking.

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
And almost every one when age,
Disease, or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God,
Or something very like Him.

Arthur Hugh Clough
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?

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
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 Clough
Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

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
What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost That never to have fought at all!

Arthur Hugh Clough
Alas! the great world goes its way,
And takes its truth from each new day;
They do not quit, nor can retain,
Far less consider it again.

Arthur Hugh Clough
Honour thy parents; that is, all
From whom advancement may befall:
Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive
Officiously to keep alive.

Arthur Hugh Clough