Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
J. R. R. TOLKIENWhere there’s life there’s hope.
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The wise speak only of what they know
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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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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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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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What does your heart tell you?
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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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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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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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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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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No Victory Without Suffering
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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