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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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No Victory Without Suffering
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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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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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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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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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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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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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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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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The wise speak only of what they know
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I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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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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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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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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Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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