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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

J. R. R. Tolkien

He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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Dream Himself Season See Strange Time Vision Wild
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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Break Himself Path Wisdom
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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Beautiful Beyond End Light Thinking
Where there’s life there’s hope.
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Hope Life
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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Adventure Difficult Myself
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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Greatness See Tree Wake Up
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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Morning Yourself
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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Deserve Myself Philosophy Yourself
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
What does your heart tell you?
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Heart Talk Yourself
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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Book Mad Myself Opinion Reading Writing
I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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Myself Revenge
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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Alone Memories Old Pay Wife Wisdom
I will not walk backward in life.
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Inspirational Life Myself Walk
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Friendship Man Trust
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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Death Deserve End Himself Judgement Life Live Wisdom

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