So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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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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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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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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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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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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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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