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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENPay 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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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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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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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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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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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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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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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All’s well that ends better.
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