I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
J. R. R. TOLKIENCourage is found in unlikely places.
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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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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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All’s well that ends better.
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Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
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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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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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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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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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I will not walk backward in life.
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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