The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
J. R. R. TOLKIENFor even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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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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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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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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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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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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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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