I will not walk backward in life.
J. R. R. TOLKIENIt’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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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 looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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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 will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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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 do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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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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Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
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