The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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All’s well that ends better.
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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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The wise speak only of what they know
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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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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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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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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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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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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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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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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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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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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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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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Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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