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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All’s well that ends better.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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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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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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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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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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