All Quotes by Arthur Hugh Clough
“’Twas on a sunny summer dayThat any save himself was there.”
“Truth is a golden thread, seen here and thereOf our strange being’s party-coloured web.”
“Come back again, old heart! Ah me!Wait on to show the truly right.”
“Thought may well be ever ranging,Do it, Time is on the wing!”
“Loving—if the answering breastAbove all things—mind it, mind it!”
“When panting sighs the bosom fill,Which angels sing in heaven above?”
“Thy duty do? rejoined the voice,I know not, I will do my duty.”
“Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market;Knowledge needful for all, yet cannot be had for the asking.”
“A world where nothing is had for nothing.”
“So in the sinful streets, abstracted and alone,I with my secret self held communing of mine own.”
“Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;Or at least, faith unbelief.”
“Alas! the great world goes its way,Far less consider it again.”
“Where lies the land to which the ship would go?Far, far behind, is all that they can say.”
“And almost every one when age,Or something very like Him.”
“Trust me, I’ve read your German sageWhom God deludes is well deluded.”
“I sit at my table en grand seigneur,So pleasant it is to have money.”
““There is no God,” the wicked saith,It’s better only guessing.””
“Say not the struggle nought availeth,And as things have been, things remain.”
“For while the tired waves vainly breakingComes silent, flooding in, the main.”
“In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,But westward, look, the land is bright.”
“No graven images may beWorshipped, except the currency.”
“Honour thy parents; that is, allOfficiously to keep alive.”
“Thou shalt not covet, but traditionApproves all forms of competition.”
“I watched them from the window, thy children at their play,Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow.”
“Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane,Be still, contain thyself, and bear.”
“Our ills are worse than at their easeAlas, who live not to detect.”
“Each for himself is still the ruleThe devil take the hindmost, O!”
“O tell me, friends, while yet we part,O tell me, friends, while yet we part!”
“My wind is turned to bitter north,No more again, no more.”
“’Tis possible, young sir, that some excessAnd not to use, but still correct one’s eyes.”
“The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.”