He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI will not walk backward in life.
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The wise speak only of what they know
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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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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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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
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The road goes ever on and on
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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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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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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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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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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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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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 am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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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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