Quote #12

Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief; Or at least, faith unbelief.

More from Arthur Hugh Clough

  1. So in the sinful streets, abstracted and alone, I with my secret self held communing of mine own.
  2. Alas! the great world goes its way, And takes its truth from each new day; They do not quit, nor can retain, Far less consider it again.
  3. There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions; Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations.
  4. Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know. And where the land she travels from? Away, Far, far…
  5. A world where nothing is had for nothing.
  6. Go; say not in thy heart, And what then were it accomplished, Were the wild impulse allayed, what were the use or the good! Go, when the in…
  7. Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market; Knowledge needful for all, yet cannot be had for the asking.
  8. And almost every one when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like Him.

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