A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
J. R. R. TOLKIENMay it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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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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I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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The wise speak only of what they know
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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What does your heart tell you?
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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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I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
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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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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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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 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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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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