A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. TOLKIENCome, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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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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From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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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 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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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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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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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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What does your heart tell you?
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