Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI 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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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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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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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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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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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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All’s well that ends better.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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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 am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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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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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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