You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
J. R. R. TOLKIENYou can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.
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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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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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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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I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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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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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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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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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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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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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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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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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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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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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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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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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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