I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThere 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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The wise speak only of what they know
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No Victory Without Suffering
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
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Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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All’s well that ends better.
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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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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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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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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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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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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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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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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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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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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 walk backward in life.
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