Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.

That out of sight is out of mind is true of most we leave behind.

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.

Out of sight is out of mind.

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

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.

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

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

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

A world where nothing is had for nothing.

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

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!

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

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

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?