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. TOLKIENCome, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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All’s well that ends better.
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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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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!
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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 something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
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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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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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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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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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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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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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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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