You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThe wise speak only of what they know
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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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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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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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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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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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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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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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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The wise speak only of what they know
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