I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
J. R. R. TOLKIENI want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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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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The road goes ever on and on
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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What does your heart tell you?
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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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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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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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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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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Never laugh at live dragons.
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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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Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
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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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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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No Victory Without Suffering
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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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