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.

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

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

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

Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

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.

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

Ah, why should life all labor be?

I am a part of all whom I have met.

O hard, when love and duty clash!

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