Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J. R. R. TOLKIENIt is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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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 wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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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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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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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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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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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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