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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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Enjoyment Sad Time Yourself
Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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Adventure Carry End Story
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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Adventure Difficult Myself
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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End Fantasy Snow
No Victory Without Suffering
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Suffering Victory
But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Darkness End Hope
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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Adventure Morning Myself Time Yourself
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
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
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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Change Future Person
All’s well that ends better.
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End One Liner
For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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End One Liner Wisdom
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Faith Greatness Live
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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Art Enemy Goodness Sick
The wise speak only of what they know
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Knowledge Talk Wisdom
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Friendship Man Trust
I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.
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Alive End Friendship Himself Myself
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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Break Himself Path Wisdom
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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Darkness Greatness Grief Growth Love Place World
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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Himself Kiss Romantic Sky
Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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Carry Fantasy Himself Romantic Yourself
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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Gold Lost Travel
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Evil Myself Tears
In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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Believe Darkness Endurance Myself
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Darkness Faith Himself Road
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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Dragon Himself Leave Live Myself
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

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