All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TOLKIENFalse hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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All’s well that ends better.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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