The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
J. R. R. TOLKIENA man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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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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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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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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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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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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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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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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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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