I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThen 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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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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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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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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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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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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The wise speak only of what they know
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Short cuts make long delays.
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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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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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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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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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