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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.

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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Faith Greatness Live
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
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
Short cuts make long delays.
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Inspirational One Liner Success
I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.
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Alive End Friendship Himself Myself
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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Advice Danger Deep Gift Wisdom
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
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Healing Philosophy Revenge
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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Art Enemy Goodness Sick
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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Beautiful Beyond End Light Thinking
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
The wise speak only of what they know
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Knowledge Talk Wisdom
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 do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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Love Myself Philosophy Warrior Weapon
What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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Fantasy Himself

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.

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