20 Quotes by Alfred the Great

Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks.

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

Ah, why should life all labor be?

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

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!

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

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.

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.