I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
J. R. R. TOLKIENHe that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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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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What does your heart tell you?
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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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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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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