You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
J. R. R. TOLKIENMay it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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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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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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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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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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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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For 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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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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The road goes ever on and on
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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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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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