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

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Cheating, Emptiness, Stealing

  "The Latest Decalogue" l. 15 (1862)

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• No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Idols, May, Currency

  "The Latest Decalogue" l. 3 (1862)

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• There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Blessing, Wicked, Done

  'Dipsychus' (1865) sc. 6

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• As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Two, Long, League

  'Qua Curam Ventus' (1849)

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• Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and by the letter Duty done is duty done Do it, Time is on the wing!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Law, Wings, Tasks

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.19

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• Loving if the answering breast Seem not to be thus possessed, Still in hoping have a care; If it do, beware, beware! But if in yourself you find it, Above all things mind it, mind it!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Mind, Care, Breasts

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.20

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• 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

  Thinking, Sorrow, Age

  'Dipsychus' (1865) sc. 6

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• I sit at my table en grand seigneur , And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one's self, of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Self, Giving, Done

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Francis Turner Palgrave (1862). “Poems”, p.46

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

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  War, Fall, Bridges

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Shirley Chew (2003). “Arthur Hugh Clough: Selected Poems”, p.60, Psychology Press

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• Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Believe, Wine, Rome

  'Amours de Voyage' (1858) canto 1, pt. 2

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• Thou shalt have one God only: who Would be at the expense of two?

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Two, Would Be, Expenses

  'The Latest Decalogue' (1862)

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• Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying years this lesson still convey), 'Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise, And not to use, but still correct one's eyes.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Eye, Men, Years

  Arthur Hugh Clough, F. H. Langman (1964). “Selected poems”

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

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Statistics, Belief, Action

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Joseph Phelan (2016). “Clough: Selected Poems”, p.122, Routledge

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• Dance on, dance on, we see, we see
  Youth goes, alack, and with it glee,
  A boy the old man ne'er can be;
  Maternal thirty scarce can find
  The sweet sixteen long left behind.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Sweet, Boys, Men

  "Youth and Age". Poem by Arthur Hugh Clough,

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• Afloat.We move: Delicious! Ah, What else is like the gondola?

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Moving, Gondolas, Delicious

  'Dipsychus' (1865) sc. 5

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• There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions; Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Fields, Providence, My Friends

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1848). “The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich: a long-vacation pastoral”, p.51

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• O tell me, friends, while yet we part, And heart can yet be heard of heart, O tell me then, for what is it Our early plan of life we quit; From all our old intentions range, And why does all so wholly change? O tell me, friends, while yet we part!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Heart, Doe, Quitting

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1863). “Poems”, p.26

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• Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Brother, Men, Old Things

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Francis Turner Palgrave (1862). “Poems”, p.63

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• As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Money, Drinking, Thinking

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Francis Turner Palgrave (1862). “Poems”, p.45

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• 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?

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Fighting, Bravery, Soul

  'Amours de Voyage' (1858) canto 5, pt. 6

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

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Sight, Mind, Behinds

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

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