It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
J. R. R. TOLKIENBut in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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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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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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What does your heart tell you?
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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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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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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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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Short cuts make long delays.
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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 am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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The wise speak only of what they 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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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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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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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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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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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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