False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
J. R. R. TOLKIENHe 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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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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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.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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All’s well that ends better.
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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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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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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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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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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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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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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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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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The road goes ever on and on
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