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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENHis grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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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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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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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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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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