Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
J. R. R. TOLKIENIt does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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What does your heart tell you?
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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 feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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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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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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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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