In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
J. R. R. TOLKIENFor like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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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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Short cuts make long delays.
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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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Not all those who wander are lost.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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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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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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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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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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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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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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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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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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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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