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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENCourage is found in unlikely places.
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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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The wise speak only of what they know
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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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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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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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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.
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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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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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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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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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The road goes ever on and on
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