Never laugh at live dragons.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThen 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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What does your heart tell you?
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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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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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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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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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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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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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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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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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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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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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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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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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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I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
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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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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
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