So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThe road goes ever on and on
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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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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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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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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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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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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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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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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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