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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI 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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Short cuts make long delays.
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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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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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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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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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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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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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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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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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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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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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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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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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