And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
J. R. R. TOLKIENFalse hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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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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From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
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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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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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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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