It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
J. R. R. TOLKIENMoonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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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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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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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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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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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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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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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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I will not walk backward in life.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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