Alfred The Great Quotes

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

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

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

For man is man and master of his fate.

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

I am a part of all whom I have met.

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

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

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!

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.

Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!

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

Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks

Ah, why should life all labor be?

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

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

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

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

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