Alfred the Great Quotes

Ah, why should life all labor be?

The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.

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

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

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

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

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

O hard, when love and duty clash!

All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well.

Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

I am a part of all whom I have met.

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

Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks

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

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

For man is man and master of his fate.

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

For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of prosperity the mind is elated, and in prosperity a man forgets himself; in hardship he is forced to reflect on himself, even though he be unwilling. In prosperity a man often destroys the good he has done; amidst difficulties he often repairs what he long since did in the way of wickedness.

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