I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI will not walk backward in life.
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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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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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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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He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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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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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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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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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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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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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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