Howard Pyle - The merry adventures of Robin Hood (1883)

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It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list to such tales, his soul doth say, 'put by thy poor little likings and seek to do likewise.' Truly, one may not do as nobly one's self, but in the striving one is better...

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An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded to a man before, and that without would or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.

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So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.

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He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.

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When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.

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