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.
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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The road goes ever on and on
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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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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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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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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What does your heart tell you?
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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