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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENDo not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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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 glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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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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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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