Arthur Hugh Clough

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

— Arthur Hugh Clough

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

— Arthur Hugh Clough

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

— Arthur Hugh Clough

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

— Arthur Hugh Clough

Thou shalt have one God only; whoWould be at the expense of two?No graven images may beWorshipped, except the currency:Swear not at all; for for thy curseThine enemy is none the worse:At church on Sunday to attendWill serve to keep the world thy friend:Honour thy parents; that is, allFrom whom advancement may befall:Thou shalt not kill; but needst not striveOfficiously to keep alive:Do not adultery commit;Advantage rarely comes of it:Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat,When its so lucrative to cheat:Bear not false witness: let the lieHave time on its own wings to fly:Thou shalt not covet; but traditionApproves all forms of competition. The sum of all is, thou shalt love,If any body, God above:At any rate shall never labourMore than thyself to love thy neighbour.

— Arthur Hugh Clough

Though dead, not dead; Not gone, though fled; Not lost, not vanished. In the great gospel and true creed, He is yet risen indeed; Christ is yet risen.

— Arthur Hugh Clough

The Silver Wedding! on some pensive ear From towers remote as sound the silvery bells, To-day from one far unforgotten year A silvery faint memorial music swells. And silver-pale the dim memorial light Of musing age on youthful joys is shed, The golden joys of fancy's dawning bright, The golden bliss of, Woo'd, and won, and wed.

— Arthur Hugh Clough

The best of the tables and the best of the fare--And as for the others, the devil may care; It isn't our fault if they dare not afford To sup like a prince and be drunk as a lord. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money.

— Arthur Hugh Clough