The road goes ever on and on
J. R. R. TOLKIENIf more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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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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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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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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All’s well that ends better.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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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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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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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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