All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TOLKIENA hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
More J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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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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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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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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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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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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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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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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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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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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The road goes ever on and on
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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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