It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThe world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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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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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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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.
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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