21 ordspråk av Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough föddes den 1 januar 1819 och dog den 13 november 1861 - English writer
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If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When its so lucrative to cheat

What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost Than never to have fought at all

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

This world is very odd we see, We do not comprehend it; But in one fact we all agree, God won't, and we can't mend it

Thou shalt not covet, but tradition approves of all forms of competition

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him

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.

Good are the Ethics, I wis; good absolute, not for me, though; / Good, too, Logic, of course; in itself, but not in fine weather.

A world where nothing is had for nothing.

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

Still more plain the Tutor, the grave man, nicknamed Adam, / White-tied, clerical, silent, with antique square-cut waistcoat / Formal, unchanged, of black cloth, but with sense and feeling beneath it.

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

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?

Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, - / Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?

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