The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
J. R. R. TOLKIENIt’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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The road goes ever on and on
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What does your heart tell you?
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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Short cuts make long delays.
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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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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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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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