The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
J. R. R. TOLKIENSorry! 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!
More J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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The 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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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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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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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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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 warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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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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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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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 come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
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There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
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