It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
J. R. R. TOLKIENAnd 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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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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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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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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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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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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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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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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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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What does your heart tell you?
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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.
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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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