Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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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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What does your heart tell you?
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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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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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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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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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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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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 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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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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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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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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