I will not walk backward in life.
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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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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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 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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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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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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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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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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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 am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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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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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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