Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThe road goes ever on and on
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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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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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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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 man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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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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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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The road goes ever on and on
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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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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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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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