Arthur Hugh Clough (1 January 1819 – 13 November 1861) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough, who ended up as principal of Newnham College, Cambridge.
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“And almost every one when age,
Disease, or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God,
Or something very like Him.”
—Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)
“Thou shalt not kill; but need’st not strive
Officiously to keep alive:
Do not adultery commit;
Advantage rarely comes of it:”
—Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)
“The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“Thou shalt not covet; but tradition
Approves all forms of competition.”
—Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)
“If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.”
—Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)