He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThere 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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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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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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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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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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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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The road goes ever on and on
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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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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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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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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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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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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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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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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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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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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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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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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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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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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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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