From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
J. R. R. TOLKIENLiving by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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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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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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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 will not walk backward in life.
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The wise speak only of what they know
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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