58 Quotes by Arthur Hugh Clough

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

I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh, far away, And childish loves, and childish cares, and a child's own buoyant gladness Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadness; And feelings frozen up full long, and thoughts of long ago, Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow.

Each for himself is still the rule We learn it when we go to school The devil take the hindmost, O!

This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won't, and we can't mend it.

Be but faithful, that is all; Go right on, and close behind thee There shall follow still and find thee Help, sure help.

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

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.

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.

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.