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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThe world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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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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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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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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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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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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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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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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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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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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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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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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