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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

J. R. R. Tolkien

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Fear Himself Man
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Beyond Memories World
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Philosophy World Yourself
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. TOLKIEN

Business Danger Road
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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Mystery Philosophy Quite Yourself
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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Deep Forget History Knowledge Lost
The wise speak only of what they know
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Knowledge Talk Wisdom
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Healing Philosophy Revenge
And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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Himself Kiss Romantic Sky
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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Feeling Goodness Morning Myself Yourself
Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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Adventure Carry End Story
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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Art Enemy Goodness Sick
I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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Choice Myself
Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Courage Place
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Fantasy Live
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Darkness Forget Grief Heart Himself Teaching Wisdom

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