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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENOft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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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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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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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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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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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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The road goes ever on and on
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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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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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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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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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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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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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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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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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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What does your heart tell you?
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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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