Alfred the Great famous quotes

04-17-2025

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.
-- Alfred the Great

#Education #Writing #Men
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

#Rich #Poor #Doom
All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.
-- Alfred the Great

#Toil #Firsts #Should
When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.
-- Alfred the Great

#Stars #Heaven #Earth
I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
-- Alfred the Great

#Men #Remembrance #Desire
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

#Men #Nurse #Despair
Hemorrhoids can bleed, typically after a bowel movement, producing blood-streaked stool or toilet paper, .. The blood may turn water in the toilet bowl red. However, the amount of blood is usually small, and hemorrhoids rarely lead to severe blood loss or anemia.
-- Alfred the Great

#Loss #Blood #Water
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.
-- Alfred the Great

#New Year #War #Pride
The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.
-- Alfred the Great

#Christmas #Bells #Answers
He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.
-- Alfred the Great

#Life #Men #Long
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, Argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew, From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.
-- Alfred the Great

#Twilight #Rain #Eye
The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.
-- Alfred the Great

#Men #Ignorant #Exciting
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.
-- Alfred the Great

#Humble #Pride #Men
I am a part of all whom I have met.
-- Alfred the Great

#Teaching #Mets
He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
-- Alfred the Great

#Lonely #Wall #Fall

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