If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIENVoiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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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 will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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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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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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