And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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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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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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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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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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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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Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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What does your heart tell you?
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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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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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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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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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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