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.
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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All’s well that ends better.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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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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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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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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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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