It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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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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Not all those who wander are lost.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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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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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
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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.
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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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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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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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The wise speak only of what they know
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All’s well that ends better.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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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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Never laugh at live dragons.
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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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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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