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Alfred The Great quotes: The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

Alfred The Great quotes: Ah, what shall I be at fifty,should nature keep me alive,if I find the world so bitterwhen I am but twenty-five?

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?

Alfred The Great quotes: One God, one law, one element,And one far-off divine event,To which the whole creation moves.

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.

The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.

Alfred The Great quotes: A life that moves to gracious endsThro' troops of unrecording friends,A deedful life, a silent voice.

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

Alfred The Great quotes: I am a part of all whom I have met.

I am a part of all whom I have met.

Alfred The Great quotes: Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night.

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

Alfred The Great quotes: Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks

Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks

Alfred The Great quotes: For the unquiet heart and brain,A use in measured language lies.

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

Alfred The Great quotes: 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!

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!

Alfred The Great quotes: For man is man and master of his fate.

For man is man and master of his fate.

Alfred The Great quotes: When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.

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

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

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

Alfred The Great quotes: Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

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

Alfred The Great quotes: I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

Alfred The Great quotes: I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

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

Alfred The Great quotes: O hard, when love and duty clash!

O hard, when love and duty clash!