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

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I realized I love him just as much or more than I did four years ago. That I'm never live with him" She raised her head to look at her sisters with haunted eyes. "And I don't know if I can live without him.

Alfred the Great

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

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

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For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of prosperity the mind is elated, and in prosperity a man forgets himself; in hardship he is forced to reflect on himself, even though he be unwilling. In prosperity a man often destroys the good he has done; amidst difficulties he often repairs what he long since did in the way of wickedness.

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

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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.

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

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