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.

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!

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.

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.

Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.

A world where nothing is had for nothing.

Out of sight is out of mind.

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.

The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.

Idonot likebeingmoved:for thewill isexcited;andaction Is a most dangerous thing: I tremble for something factitious, Some malpractice of heart and illegitimate process; We are so proneto thesethings with our terrible notions of duty.

How pleasant it is to have money.

Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.