It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
J. R. R. TOLKIENPay 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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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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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 feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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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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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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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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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.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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The road goes ever on and on
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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