Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. TOLKIENFair speech may hide a foul heart.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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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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There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
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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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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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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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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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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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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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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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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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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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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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