False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThere 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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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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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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Not all those who wander are lost.
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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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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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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.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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All’s well that ends better.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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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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The wise speak only of what they know
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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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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