Not all those who wander are lost.
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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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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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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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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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.
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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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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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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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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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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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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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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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I will not walk backward in life.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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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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