Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes

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• If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Liars, Lying, May

  'Say not the struggle naught availeth' (1855)

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

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Military, Land, Sun

  "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)

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

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Knowledge, Grace, Given

  'The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich' (1848) pt. 4, l. 159

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

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Suicidal, Alive, Strive

  "The Latest Decalogue" l. 11 (1862)

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

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Faithful, Helping, Fidelity

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.127

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• 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!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Tired, Light, Land

  "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)

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• 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.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Children, Heart, Sadness

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1951). “Poems”, Oxford University Press

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• 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.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Heart, Thinking, Light

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas Burbidge (1849). “Ambarvalia: Poems”, p.14

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• 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

  Summer, Rain, Heart

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.151

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• A world where nothing is had for nothing.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  World

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1848). “The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich: A Long-vacation Pastoral”, p.44

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• Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Doubt, Juxtaposition, Prophet

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• The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  People, Pleasure, Horrible

  'Amours de Voyage' (1858) canto 1, pt. 11

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• 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.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Heart, Malpractice, Process

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• Out of sight is out of mind.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Sight, Mind

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Shirley Chew (2003). “Arthur Hugh Clough: Selected Poems”, p.64, Psychology Press

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• Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Adultery, Advantage, Commit

  'The Latest Decalogue' (1862)

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

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Equality, Political, Liberty

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• How pleasant it is to have money.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Money, Pleasant

  'Dipsychus' (1865) sc. 5

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• 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.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  World, Facts, Enough

  'Dipsychus' (1865) sc. 5

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• 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.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Struggle, Enemy, Vain

  'Say not the struggle naught availeth' (1855)

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• 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?

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Pain, Angel, Eye

  "Love and Reason". Poem by Arthur Hugh Clough, 1844.

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• 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.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Party, Here And There, Golden

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1865). “Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough”, p.40

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• 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.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Fall, Soul, Steps

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.53

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• 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.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Gay, Wind, Sky

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Francis Turner Palgrave (1862). “Poems”, p.13

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

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Sports, Competition, Coveting

  "The Latest Decalogue" l. 19 (1862)

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

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  School, Devil, Stills

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1863). “Poems”, p.55

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