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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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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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Enjoyment Sad Time Yourself
No Victory Without Suffering
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Suffering Victory
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Fairytale Safety True World
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
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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Born Hope
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
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Decision Inspirational Time
The road goes ever on and on
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Road Travel
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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Fear Himself Man
You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Fantasy Yourself
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Anger Fantasy Quick
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Healing Philosophy Revenge
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
I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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Desire Kindness Love Man Myself
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Evil Myself Tears
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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Darkness Greatness Grief Growth Love Place World
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Deserve Myself Philosophy Yourself
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
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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Adventure Difficult Myself
Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Absence Myself Travel
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Faith Greatness Live
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
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Job Philosophy Start
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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Feeling Myself
False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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Danger Fear Hope
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Fake Heart Hide Talk
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Darkness Faith Himself Road

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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