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No Victory Without Suffering

J. R. R. Tolkien

Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
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Greatness See Tree Wake Up
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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Dragon Himself Leave Live Myself
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
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
I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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End Happiness Myself Togetherness
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
Never laugh at live dragons.
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Fantasy Laughter Live
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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Born Hope
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
All’s well that ends better.
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End One Liner
Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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Feeling Goodness Morning Myself Yourself
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
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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Alive End Friendship Himself Myself
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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Morning Yourself
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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Book Mad Myself Opinion Reading Writing

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