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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

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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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Adventure Carry End Story
I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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Desire Kindness Love Man Myself
Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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Animal Death Voice Wings
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Moon Sun Walk Wings Yourself
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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Dragon Himself Leave Live Myself
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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Beyond Doubt End See
No Victory Without Suffering
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Suffering Victory
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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Born Hope
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Friendship Man Trust
For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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End One Liner Wisdom
All’s well that ends better.
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End One Liner
Never laugh at live dragons.
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Fantasy Laughter Live
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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Deep Forget History Knowledge Lost
The wise speak only of what they know
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Knowledge Talk Wisdom
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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Death Deserve End Himself Judgement Life Live Wisdom
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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Darkness Greatness Grief Growth Love Place World

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