Arthur Hugh Clough quotes

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)
A world where nothing is had for nothing. View quote
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. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
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. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
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. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
Each for himself is still the rule We learn it when we go to school The devil take the hindmost, O! View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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)
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. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
I sit at my table en grand seigneur, And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one's self, of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money. View quote
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. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
Thou shalt not covet, but tradition Approves all forms of competition. View quote
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! View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
O tell me, friends, while yet we part, And heart can yet be heard of heart, O tell me then, for what is it Our early plan of life we quit; From all our old intentions range, And why does all so wholly change? O tell me, friends, while yet we part! View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
When panting sighs the bosom fill, And hands by chance united thrill At once with one delicious pain The pulses and the nerves of twain; When eyes that erst could meet with ease, Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun Ecstatic conscious unison,- The sure beginnings, say, be these Prelusive to the strain of love Which angels sing in heaven above? View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on; Earth, air, and sun and skies combine To promise all that's kind and fair: But thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, contain thyself, and bear. (Arthur Hugh Clough)
'Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying years this lesson still convey), 'Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise, And not to use, but still correct one's eyes. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service. View quote
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. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough