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The wise speak only of what they know

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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Death Horror Spiritual Time
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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Change Future Person
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
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
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
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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Fear Patience Try Yourself
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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Habit Myself Old Present Talk Wisdom
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Decision Inspirational Time
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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Break Light Power Wake Up
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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Mad Myself Yourself
Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Courage Place
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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Body Spirit Strength
And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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Change Heart Herself Sun Understand
Not all those who wander are lost.
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Instagram Captions Lost One Liner Travel
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
For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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End One Liner Wisdom
I will not walk backward in life.
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Inspirational Life Myself Walk
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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Deep Forget History Knowledge Lost
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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Book Mad Myself Opinion Reading Writing
I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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Fantasy Myself
Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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Feeling Goodness Morning Myself Yourself
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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Fun Path Remember Safety Wild World
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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Beyond Doubt End See
All’s well that ends better.
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End One Liner
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
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Fantasy Live
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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Philosophy World Yourself

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