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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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Death Deserve Judgement Life Live
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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Heart Understand Yourself
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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Deserve Myself Philosophy Yourself
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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Mad Myself Yourself
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Job Philosophy Start
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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Gold Lost Old Philosophy Strong
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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Break Himself Path Wisdom
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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Body Spirit Strength
Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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Laughter Live Man Sound Strange Voice
Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Absence Myself Travel
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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Alone Memories Old Pay Wife Wisdom
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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End Fantasy Snow
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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Enjoyment Sad Time Yourself
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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Dragon Himself Leave Live Myself
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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Alive End Friendship Himself Myself
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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Beyond Doubt End See

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