False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
J. R. R. TOLKIENCourage is found in unlikely places.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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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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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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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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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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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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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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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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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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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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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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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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