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The wise speak only of what they know

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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Mystery Philosophy Quite Yourself
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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Advice Danger Deep Gift Wisdom
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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Enough War World
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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Darkness Forget Grief Heart Himself Teaching Wisdom
I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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Growth Healing Love Myself
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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Art Enemy Goodness Sick
I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
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Himself Myself Path See Walk
I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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Fantasy Myself
You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Fantasy Yourself
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Food Gold Happiness Value World
Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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Laughter Live Man Sound Strange Voice
It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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Business Danger Road
What does your heart tell you?
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Heart Talk Yourself
How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Judgement Man Time
Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Courage Place
I will not walk backward in life.
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Inspirational Life Myself Walk

The wise speak only of what they know

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