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Book: The High King
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Lloyd Alexander _ The High King
Some days are like that...and what's to be done about it? Nothing, alas, but hope things will brighten, which they very likely won't. But there you are, it's all one can do.
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Lloyd Alexander _ The High King
The tasks you set yourself are cruelly difficult. There is no certainty you will accomplish even one, and much risk you will fail in all of them. In either case, your efforts may well go unrewarded, unsung, forgotten. And at the end, like all mortals, you must face your death; perhaps without even a mound of honor to mark your resting place.
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Lloyd Alexander _ The High King
It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another," he said, "for in it are good and evil mixed.
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Lloyd Alexander _ The High King
Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into distant memory, there were many who wondered whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, and their companions had indeed walked the earth, or whether they had been no more than dreams in a tale set down to beguile children. And, in time, only the bards knew the truth of it.
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Lloyd Alexander _ The High King
From a swift canter the powerful legs of Melynlas stretched to a gallop. The stallion's muscles heaved beneath him and Taran, sword raised, plunged into the sea of men. His head spun and he gasped as if drowning. He realized he was terrified.
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Lloyd Alexander _ The High King
Our pride is not in fighting but in farming; In the work of our, hands not our blades. Never have we sought war. We come to the Banner of the white pig because it is the banner of our friend, Terran Wanderer.
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Lloyd Alexander _ The High King
One way everything looks all right, the other way, it looks all wrong.
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Lloyd Alexander _ The High King
It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another... for in it are good and evil mixed."
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Lloyd Alexander _ The High King
Ah, Princess," Dallben said, with a furrowed smile, "a crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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Lloyd Alexander _ The High King
When prophecies give no help, men must find it themselves.
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Lloyd Alexander _ The High King
A lady doesn't insist on having her own way. Then, next thing you know, it all works out somehow, without one's even trying. I thought I'd never learn, though it's really quite easy once you get the knack.
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Lloyd Alexander _ The High King
Of wisdom there are as many patterns as a loom can weave. Yours is the wisdom of good and kindly heart. Scarce it is and its worth all the greater.
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