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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENSo comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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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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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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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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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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