But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThe whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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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.
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The road goes ever on and on
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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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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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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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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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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