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Never laugh at live dragons.

J. R. R. Tolkien

He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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Dream Himself Season See Strange Time Vision Wild
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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Body Spirit Strength
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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Feeling Goodness Morning Myself Yourself
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Children Food Goodness Kindness Value World
How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Judgement Man Time
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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Gold Lost Old Philosophy Strong
You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Fantasy Yourself
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
Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Absence Myself Travel
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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Mad Myself Yourself
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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End Fantasy Snow
What does your heart tell you?
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Heart Talk Yourself
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Faith Greatness Live
Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
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Greatness See Tree Wake Up
False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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Danger Fear Hope
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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Book Mad Myself Opinion Reading Writing

Never laugh at live dragons.

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