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!
J. R. R. TOLKIENYour time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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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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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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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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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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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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