The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
J. R. R. TOLKIENA safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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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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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
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From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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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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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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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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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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And 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 does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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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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