"I desire to leave to the men that……" — Alfred the Great
"I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works."
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Alfred the Great
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13 Quotes by Alfred the Great
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He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he…
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I am a part of all whom I have met.
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For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and…
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The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.
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He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very…
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The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.
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Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth…
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Hemorrhoids can bleed, typically after a bowel movement, producing blood-streaked stool or toilet paper, .. The blood may turn water…
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It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till…
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When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.
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All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.
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Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to…
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More Desire Quotes
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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