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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENEven the smallest person can change the course of the future
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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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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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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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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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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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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Never laugh at live dragons.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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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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