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.
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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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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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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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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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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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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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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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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