The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows. — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars. — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point. — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die. — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice. — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies. — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
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