Action Quote by Arthur Hugh Clough

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

Arthur Hugh Clough

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

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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…

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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…

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Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.

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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,…

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

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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…

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How pleasant it is to have money.

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Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been,…

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Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When its so lucrative to cheat

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Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the…

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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.

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