Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThe wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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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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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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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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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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