Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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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.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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What does your heart tell you?
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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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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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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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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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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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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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