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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENNot all those who wander are lost.
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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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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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I will not walk backward in life.
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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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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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There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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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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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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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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Never laugh at live dragons.
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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All’s well that ends better.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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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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I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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