Deserves it! I daresay he does. 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. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. TOLKIENIt’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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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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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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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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What does your heart tell you?
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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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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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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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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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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