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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

J. R. R. Tolkien

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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Fear Himself Man
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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Himself Myself Path See Walk
Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Hope Life Need
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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Philosophy World Yourself
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Job Philosophy Start
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Fantasy Live
I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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Growth Healing Love Myself
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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Beyond Memories World
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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Business Danger Road
False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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Danger Fear Hope
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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Death Deserve End Himself Judgement Life Live Wisdom
The wise speak only of what they know
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Knowledge Talk Wisdom
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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Change Heart Herself Sun Understand
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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Fun Path Remember Safety Wild World
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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Beyond Doubt End See
Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Courage Place

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

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