Charles Cowden Clarke famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.

  • I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.

  • Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

  • His time's forever, everywhere his place.

  • The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  • Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

  • On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

  • You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.

  • Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?

  • It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.