Occupation: King Of Wessex Birth: 849 Death: October 26, 899
The greater the man the greater the courtesy..
I am a part of all whom I have met..
I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works..
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 go….
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 pros….
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..
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?.
For man is man and master of his fate..
Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night..
The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself..
A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice..
...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies..
One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves..
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 co….
The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows..
Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point..
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die..
I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned..
Ah, why should life all labor be?.
Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks.