Arthur Clough Quotes & Sayings

You have to stay in character in between takes. — Ben Stiller

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

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices. — Christian Nestell Bovee

How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrow's unseasonal reality? That we tend to not even think about this as a foundation for solutions in our food systems shows how quickly we want other people to solve these issues. — Joel Salatin

The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself. — Solomon

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

Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.' — Julianna Baggott

How pleasant it is to have money. — Arthur Hugh Clough

Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it. — 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

Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market. — 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

Nothing changes until you change. — Robin S. Sharma

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

Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet. — 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

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

A world where nothing is had for nothing. — Arthur Hugh Clough

The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people. — 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

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive. — Arthur Hugh Clough

Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone who has the personal power to bring you into altered states of awareness. — Frederick Lenz

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service. — Arthur Hugh Clough

It wasn't a hug - hugs ended quickly, even long ones, but this one persisted into something else entirely. — Madeline Ashby

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

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