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Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great (Old English: Ælfrēd,[a] Ælfrǣd[b], "elf counsel" or "wise elf"; 849 – 26 October 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.

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For man is man and master of his fate.

Fate, Man, Master, Masters, Men

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

Desire, Good, Leave, Men, Remembrance, Works

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

Clearest, Earth, Heaven, Obscured, Stars

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

Creeping, Moves, Moving, Point, Science

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.

Education, Life, Man, Men, Reach, Understanding

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

Answer, Answers, Bells, Christmas, Hill, Xmas

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

Alone, Firsts, Rest, Should, Toil

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!

Doom, Poor, Rich

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

Brain, Heart, Lying, Measured, Unquiet, Use

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

Antagonisms, Despair, Man, Men, Nurse, Till

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.

Down, Eye, Magic, Rain, Twilight

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

Creation, Destiny, Event, Law, Moving

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

Friends, Life, Moving, Troops, Voice

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

Exciting, Ignorant, Knows, Men, Thing

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?

Alive, Fifty, Nature, Twenties, World

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.

Devote, Education, Enough, Fit, Men, Writing

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

Flowing, Middle, Middle Of The Night, Night

Ah, why should life all labor be?

Should, Labor, Life