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?
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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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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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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The wise speak only of what they know
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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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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 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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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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