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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThe wise speak only of what they know
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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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 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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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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All’s well that ends better.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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What does your heart tell you?
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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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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
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