So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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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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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I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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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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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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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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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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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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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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