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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

J. R. R. Tolkien

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.
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Mystery Philosophy Quite Yourself
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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Advice Danger Deep Gift Wisdom
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Food Gold Happiness Value World
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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Adventure Morning Myself Time Yourself
Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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Adventure Carry End Story
I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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Desire Kindness Love Man Myself
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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Fear Himself Man
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Fake Heart Hide Talk
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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Body Spirit Strength
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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Himself Myself Path See Walk
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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Enjoyment Sad Time Yourself
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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Philosophy World Yourself
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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Heart Understand Yourself
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Job Philosophy Start
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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Death Horror Spiritual Time
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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Art Enemy Goodness Sick

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