"If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars." — Arthur Hugh Clough
"If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars."
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Arthur Hugh Clough
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22 Quotes by Arthur Hugh Clough
Arthur Hugh Clough has 22 quotes on this site.
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Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.
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In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.
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Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.
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Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
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A world where nothing is had for nothing.
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Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.
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Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the…
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It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so: That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er…
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Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.
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Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.
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And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very…
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How pleasant it is to have money.
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More Dupes Quotes
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one of 48 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its…
— William Beveridge
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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool…
— Giacomo Casanova
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When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes…
— Elbridge Gerry
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I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led…
— Thomas Jefferson
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War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.
— Thomas Paine
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The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out…
— John Calvin
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Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's…
— Wesley Morris
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