20 Quotes by Alfred the Great

For man is man and master of his fate.

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

I am a part of all whom I have met.

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

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.

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

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

O hard, when love and duty clash!

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.