All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TOLKIENCourage is found in unlikely places.
More J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I will not walk backward in life.
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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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All’s well that ends better.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
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The road goes ever on and on
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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Deserves it! I daresay he does. 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. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
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The wise speak only of what they know
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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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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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