Quotes from Alfred the Great

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?

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

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

There's this guy called Joshua and he knows all about me. I hope he writes my biography, and puts spaceships in it

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

Ah, why should life all labor be?

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

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

O hard, when love and duty clash!

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

For man is man and master of his fate.

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.

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