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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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Adventure Difficult Myself
What does your heart tell you?
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Heart Talk 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
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
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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Change Future Person
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
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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Gold Lost Old Philosophy Strong
How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Judgement Man Time
For 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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Beautiful Beyond End Light Thinking
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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Dragon Himself Leave Live Myself
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Food Gold Happiness Value World
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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Book Mad Myself Opinion Reading Writing
In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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Believe Darkness Endurance Myself
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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Laughter Live Man Sound Strange Voice
I will not walk backward in life.
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Inspirational Life Myself Walk
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Job Philosophy Start

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