Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThen Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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All’s well that ends better.
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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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There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
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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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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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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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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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