Never laugh at live dragons.
J. R. R. TOLKIENLiving by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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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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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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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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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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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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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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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.
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