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. TOLKIENLiving by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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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.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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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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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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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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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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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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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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