"My wind is turned to bitter north, That……" — Arthur Hugh Clough
"My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before; My sky, that shone so sunny bright, With foggy gloom is clouded o'er My gay green leaves are yellow-black, Upon the dank autumnal floor; For love, departed once, comes back No more again, no more."
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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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If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.
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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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More Autumnal Quotes
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one of 26 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.
— Walt Whitman
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He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
— John Dryden
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How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that…
— Washington Irving
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To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be,…
— Nick Tosches
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I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another…
— Anne Robinson
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There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return.…
— Alexander Smith
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However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore…
— Fujiwara no Teika
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I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a…
— Howard Roberts
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
— John Donne
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
— P.D. James
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