Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Arthur Hugh Clough
O let me love my love unto myself alone,
And know my knowledge to the world unknown,
No witness to the vision call,
Beholding, unbeheld of all... — 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
Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition? — 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
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
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
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! — Arthur Hugh Clough
Ah yet, when all is thought and said,
The heart still overrules the head;
Still what we hope we must believe,
And what is given us receive;
Must still believe, for still we hope
That in a world of larger scope,
What here is faithfully begun
Will be completed, not undone.
My child, we still must think, when we
That ampler life together see,
Some true result will yet appear
Of what we are, together, here. — Arthur Hugh Clough
My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before; My sky, that shone so sunny bright, With foggy gloom is clouded o'er My gay green leaves are yellow-black, Upon the dank autumnal floor; For love, departed once, comes back No more again, no more. — 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
Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet. — Arthur Hugh Clough
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars. — 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
Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. — 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
The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people. — Arthur Hugh Clough
In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright. — Arthur Hugh Clough
Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive. — Arthur Hugh Clough
A world where nothing is had for nothing. — Arthur Hugh Clough
The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service. — 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
Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots. — 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
Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat. — Arthur Hugh Clough
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! — Arthur Hugh Clough
As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money! — Arthur Hugh Clough