Never laugh at live dragons.
J. R. R. TOLKIENMay the hair on your toes never fall out!
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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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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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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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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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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 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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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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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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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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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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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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