Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

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

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

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

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

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

Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.

How pleasant it is to have money.

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.

A world where nothing is had for nothing.

Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.

The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.

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?

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

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

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

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.

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.

Be but faithful, that is all; Go right on, and close behind thee There shall follow still and find thee Help, sure help.

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

Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

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

Thou shalt have one God only: who Would be at the expense of two?

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!

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

Out of sight is out of mind.

For it is beautiful only to do the thing we are meant for

Grace is given of God but knowledge is bought in the market.

Better a crust of black bread than a mountain of paper confections, Better a daisy in earth than a dahlia cut and gathered, Better a cowslip with root than a prize carnation without it