May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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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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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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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 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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Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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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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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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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.
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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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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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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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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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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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