False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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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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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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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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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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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