But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
J. R. R. TOLKIENIt is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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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.
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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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All’s well that ends better.
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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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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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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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The wise speak only of what they know
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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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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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