The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
J. R. R. TOLKIENNever laugh at live dragons.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
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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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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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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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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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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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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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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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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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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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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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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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