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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

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.
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Business Danger Road
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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Gold Lost Travel
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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Darkness Greatness Grief Growth Love Place World
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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End Fantasy Snow
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Moon Sun Walk Wings Yourself
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Job Philosophy Start
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
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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Beyond Memories World
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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Born Hope
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Anger Fantasy Quick
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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Heart Understand Yourself
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Fairytale Safety True World
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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Enjoyment Sad Time Yourself
Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Hope Life Need
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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Alive End Friendship Himself Myself
Deserves it! I daresay he does. 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. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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Death Deserve End Himself Judgement Life Live Wisdom

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