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The wise speak only of what they know

J. R. R. Tolkien

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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Goodness Hope Quite Worry
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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Love Myself Philosophy Warrior Weapon
Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Absence Myself Travel
Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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Animal Death Voice Wings
Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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Adventure Carry End Story
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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Heart Understand Yourself
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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Break Himself Path Wisdom
Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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Carry Fantasy Himself Romantic Yourself
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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Greatness See Tree Wake Up
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
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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Enough War World
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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Dragon Himself Leave Live Myself
I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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Choice Myself
Where there’s life there’s hope.
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Hope Life
But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Darkness End Hope
For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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End One Liner Wisdom

The wise speak only of what they know

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