I will not walk backward in life.
J. R. R. TOLKIENShort cuts make long delays.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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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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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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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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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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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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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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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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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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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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