Quotes by Arthur Hugh Clough

About Arthur Hugh Clough:

Arthur Hugh Clough was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough, who became principal of Newnham College, Cambridge.
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And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

Arthur Hugh Clough

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...

Arthur Hugh Clough

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

Arthur Hugh Clough

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

Arthur Hugh Clough

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

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

Arthur Hugh Clough

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

Arthur Hugh Clough

A world where nothing is had for nothing.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Author Bio

  • NameArthur Hugh Clough
  • DescriptionEnglish poet
  • BornJanuary 1, 1819
  • DiedNovember 13, 1861
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPoet; Author