Alfred the Great Quotes

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

  Alfredo el Grande

  Men, Ignorant, Exciting

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

  Alfredo el Grande

  Men, Remembrance, Desire

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• Porque en la prosperidad el hombre suele envanecerse de orgullo, mientras que las tribulaciones lo escarmentan y humillan mediante el sufrimiento y el dolor. En medio de la prosperidad la mente está eufórica, y en la prosperidad el hombre se olvida de sí mismo; en las dificultades se ve obligado a reflexionar sobre sí mismo, aunque no quiera. En la prosperidad el hombre destruye a menudo el bien que ha hecho; en medio de las dificultades repara a menudo lo que hace tiempo hizo en el camino de la maldad.

  Alfredo el Grande

  Humble, Pride, Men

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

  Alfredo el Grande

  Moving, Destiny, Law

  In Memoriam epilogue, st. 36 (1850)

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• For man is man and master of his fate.

  Alfredo el Grande

  Fate, Men, Masters

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Marriage of Geraint' (1859) l. 355

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• I am a part of all whom I have met.

  Alfredo el Grande

  Teaching, Mets

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• The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

  Alfredo el Grande

  Men, Courtesy, He Man

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• 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?

  Alfredo el Grande

  Nature, Twenties, Alive

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• 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.

  Alfredo el Grande

  New Year, War, Pride

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

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• I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

  Alfredo el Grande

  Destiny, Purpose, Embrace

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 3, sect. 6, st. 5

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• 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.

  Alfredo el Grande

  Educación, Escritura, Hombres

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

  Alfredo el Grande

  Men, Nurse, Despair

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• 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.

  Alfredo el Grande

  Rain, Twilight, Eye

  "Locksley Hall" l. 123 (1842)

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• The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.

  Alfredo el Grande

  Vow, Snaps

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• Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks

  Alfredo el Grande

  Flames, Heat, Cooks

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

  Alfredo el Grande

  Moving, Science

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 134

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• O hard, when love and duty clash!

  Alfredo el Grande

  Duty, Clash, Hard

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• 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.

  Alfredo el Grande

  Life, Education, Men

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

  Alfredo el Grande

  Lying, Heart, Brain

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 5

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• 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!

  Alfredo el Grande

  Rich, Poor, Doom

  The Doom Book (Legal Code of Ælfred the Great), 893.

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• Ah, why should life all labor be?

  Alfredo el Grande

  Should, Labor

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

  Alfredo el Grande

  Life, Moving, Voice

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

  Alfredo el Grande

  Toil, Firsts, Should

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

  Alfredo el Grande

  Night, Middle Of The Night, Middle

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

  Alfredo el Grande

  Stars, Heaven, Earth

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