I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
J. R. R. TOLKIENNo Victory Without Suffering
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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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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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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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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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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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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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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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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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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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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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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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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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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