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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThe world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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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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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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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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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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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.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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