Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
J. R. R. TOLKIENAll’s well that ends better.
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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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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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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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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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 glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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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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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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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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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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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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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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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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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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