The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
J. R. R. TOLKIENCourage is found in unlikely places.
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All’s well that ends better.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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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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Never laugh at live dragons.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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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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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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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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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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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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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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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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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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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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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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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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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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