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. TOLKIENThe road goes ever on and on
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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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The road goes ever on and 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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Short cuts make long delays.
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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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I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.
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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.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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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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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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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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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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