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!
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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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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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 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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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
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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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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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What does your heart tell you?
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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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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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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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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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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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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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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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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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