You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
J. R. R. TOLKIENAll we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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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 wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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The road goes ever on and on
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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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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No Victory Without Suffering
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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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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There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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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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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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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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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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