All’s well that ends better.
J. R. R. TOLKIENSome 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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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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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No Victory Without Suffering
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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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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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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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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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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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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