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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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Carry Fantasy Himself Romantic Yourself
And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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Change Heart Herself Sun Understand
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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Enjoyment Sad Time Yourself
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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Children Food Goodness Kindness Value World
In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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Believe Darkness Endurance Myself
But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Darkness End Hope
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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Philosophy World Yourself
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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Dream Himself Season See Strange Time Vision Wild
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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Morning Yourself
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
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Death Deserve Judgement Life Live
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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Darkness Greatness Grief Growth Love Place World
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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Feeling Myself
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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Gold Lost Travel
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Anger Fantasy Quick
I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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Desire Kindness Love Man Myself
End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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Death End Journey Path
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Deserve Myself Philosophy Yourself
I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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Growth Healing Love Myself
What does your heart tell you?
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Heart Talk Yourself
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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Beyond Memories World
I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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Fantasy Myself
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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Art Enemy Goodness Sick
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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Darkness Forget Grief Heart Himself Teaching Wisdom
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Fake Heart Hide Talk
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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Himself Kiss Romantic Sky
Never laugh at live dragons.
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Fantasy Laughter Live
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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Change Future Person

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