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> [All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-the-great/all-the-youth-now-in-england-of-free-men-who-are-rich-enough-to-be/)

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## More by Alfred the Great

> [When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-the-great/when-the-sun-clearest-shineth-serenest-in-the-heaven-quickly-are/)

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> [Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-the-great/ring-out-false-pride-in-place-and-blood-the-civic-slander-and-the/)

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> [The greater the man the greater the courtesy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-the-great/the-greater-the-man-the-greater-the-courtesy/)

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> [Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-the-great/food-over-flame-burns-food-over-heat-cooks/)

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> [Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-the-great/science-moves-but-slowly-slowly-creeping-on-from-point-to-point/)

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> [All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-the-great/all-the-youth-now-in-england-of-free-men-who-are-rich-enough-to-be/)

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> [It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-the-great/it-becomes-no-man-to-nurse-despair-but-in-the-teeth-of-clenched/)

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> [Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-the-great/doom-very-evenly-do-not-doom-one-doom-to-the-rich-another-to-the-poor/)

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> [For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-the-great/for-i-dipt-into-the-future-far-as-human-eye-could-see-saw-the-vision-2/)

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> [A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-the-great/a-life-that-moves-to-gracious-ends-thro-troops-of-unrecording-friends/)

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> [...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-the-great/for-the-unquiet-heart-and-brain-a-use-in-measured-language-lies/)

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> [ Time \[is\] flowing in the middle of the night. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-the-great/time-is-flowing-in-the-middle-of-the-night/)

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> [Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-the-great/ah-what-shall-i-be-at-fifty-should-nature-keep-me-alive-if-i-find-the/)

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> [One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-the-great/one-god-one-law-one-element-and-one-far-off-divine-event-to-which-the/)

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> [Ah, why should life all labor be?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-the-great/ah-why-should-life-all-labor-be/)

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