All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThe wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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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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From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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The road goes ever on and on
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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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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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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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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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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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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All’s well that ends better.
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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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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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