"The saddest thing about any man is that……" — Alfred the Great

"The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows."

— 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…
I am a part of all whom I have met.
For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and…
He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very…
The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth…
Hemorrhoids can bleed, typically after a bowel movement, producing blood-streaked stool or toilet paper, .. The blood may turn water…
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till…
I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.
All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.
Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to…

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