Remembrance Quotes by Alfred the Great

When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.

— Alfred the Great

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

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

— Alfred the Great

Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks

— Alfred the Great

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

— Alfred the Great

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

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

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

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

A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice.

— Alfred the Great

...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

— Alfred the Great

Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night.

— Alfred the Great