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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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Adventure Difficult Myself
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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Fear Himself Man
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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Advice Danger Deep Gift Wisdom
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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Enough War World
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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Alive End Friendship Himself Myself
I will not walk backward in life.
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Inspirational Life Myself Walk
The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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Goodness Hope Quite Worry
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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Mad Myself Yourself
How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Judgement Man Time
I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
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Fantasy Friendship Myself
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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Gold Lost Travel
May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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Darkness Light Yourself
In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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Believe Darkness Endurance Myself
For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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End One Liner Wisdom
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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Laughter Live Man Sound Strange Voice
I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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Fantasy Myself
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Friendship Man Trust
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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Break Light Power Wake Up
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
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Healing Philosophy Revenge
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Children Food Goodness Kindness Value World
But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Darkness End Hope
Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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Animal Death Voice Wings
The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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Death Horror Spiritual Time
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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Change Future Person
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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Heart Understand Yourself
He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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Dream Himself Season See Strange Time Vision Wild

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