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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. Tolkien

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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Beautiful Beyond End Light Thinking
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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Habit Myself Old Present Talk Wisdom
End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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Death End Journey Path
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Moon Sun Walk Wings Yourself
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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Darkness Forget Grief Heart Himself Teaching Wisdom
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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Gold Lost Travel
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Children Food Goodness Kindness Value World
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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Break Light Power Wake Up
May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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Darkness Light Yourself
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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Enough War World
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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Book Mad Myself Opinion Reading Writing
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Fairytale Safety True World
I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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Growth Healing Love Myself
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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Advice Danger Deep Gift Wisdom
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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Fear Himself Man
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Enjoyment Sad Time Yourself

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.

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