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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENDo not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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I will not walk backward in life.
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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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Never laugh at live dragons.
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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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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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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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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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All’s well that ends better.
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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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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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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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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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