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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENAll’s well that ends better.
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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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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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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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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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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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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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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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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 want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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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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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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