Top 27 Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes
#1. Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.
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#4. And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.
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#5. 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!
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#6. Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
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#7. 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!
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#8. Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?
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#9. In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.
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#10. 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!
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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?
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#15. The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
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#17. Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.
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#18. Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.
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#19. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#22. 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...
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#23. 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!
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#24. 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.
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#26. 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!
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