You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
J. R. R. TOLKIENFalse hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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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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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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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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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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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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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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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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All’s well that ends better.
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Deserves it! I daresay he does. 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. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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