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,…

— 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…

— 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;…

— 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…

— 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

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am…

— Alfred the Great

One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.

— Alfred the Great

Ah, why should life all labor be?

— Alfred the Great

The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.

— Alfred the Great

He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who…

— Alfred the Great

The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

— Alfred the Great

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

— Alfred the Great

I am a part of all whom I have met.

— 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

O hard, when love and duty clash!

— Alfred the Great

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— Alfred the Great

All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.

— Alfred the Great

For man is man and master of his fate.

— Alfred the Great