You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
J. R. R. TOLKIENBut in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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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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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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There 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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Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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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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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
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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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