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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.

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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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Beautiful Beyond End Light Thinking
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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Darkness Greatness Grief Growth Love Place World
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Fake Heart Hide Talk
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Anger Fantasy Quick
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Evil Myself Tears
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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Advice Danger Deep Gift Wisdom
Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Absence Myself Travel
What does your heart tell you?
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Heart Talk Yourself
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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Gold Lost Travel
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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Feeling Myself
May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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Fantasy Hairs
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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Mystery Philosophy Quite Yourself
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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Heart Understand Yourself
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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Beyond Memories World
Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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Death Deserve End Himself Judgement Life Live Wisdom
Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Courage Place
Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Hope Life Need
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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Gold Lost Old Philosophy Strong
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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Alone Memories Old Pay Wife Wisdom
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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Habit Myself Old Present Talk Wisdom
Where there’s life there’s hope.
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Hope Life
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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Children Food Goodness Kindness Value World
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Healing Philosophy Revenge
May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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Darkness Light Yourself
The wise speak only of what they know
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Knowledge Talk Wisdom
What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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Fantasy Himself
I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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Choice Myself

In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.

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