May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
J. R. R. TOLKIENNever laugh at live dragons.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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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 do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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The wise speak only of what they know
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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What does your heart tell you?
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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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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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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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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Not all those who wander are lost.
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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.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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