You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
J. R. R. TOLKIENFor like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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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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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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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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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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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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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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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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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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