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Top 20 Alfred the Great Quotes (2025 Update)

Alfred the Great Quote: “For man is man and master of his fate.”

1. “For man is man and master of his fate.”

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.”

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

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “I am a part of all whom I have met.”

3. “I am a part of all whom I have met.”

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.”

4. “Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.”

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.”

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

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “O hard, when love and duty clash!”

6. “O hard, when love and duty clash!”

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “The greater the man the greater the courtesy.”

8. “The greater the man the greater the courtesy.”

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.”

9. “He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.”

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks.”

10. “Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks.”

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Alfred the Great

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

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

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.”

13. “The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.”

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.”

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

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.”

16. “I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.”

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “Ah, why should life all labor be?”

17. “Ah, why should life all labor be?”

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.”

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

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “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!”

19. “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!”

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.”

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

— Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great Quote: “I am astonished at this arrogance of yours, since through God’s authority and my own you have enjoyed the office and status of wise men, yet you have neglected the study and application of wisdom. For this reason, I command you either to relinquish immediately the offices of worldly power that you posses, or else to apply yourselves much more attentively to the pursuit of wisdom.”

21. “I am astonished at this arrogance of yours, since through God’s authority and my own you have enjoyed the office and status of wise men, yet you have neglected the study and application of wisdom. For this reason, I command you either to relinquish immediately the offices of worldly power that you posses, or else to apply yourselves much more attentively to the pursuit of wisdom.”

— Alfred the Great

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