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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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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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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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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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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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 not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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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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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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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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Short cuts make long delays.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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