The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
J. R. R. TOLKIENAnd 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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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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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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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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No Victory Without Suffering
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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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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