The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThere 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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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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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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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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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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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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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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All’s well that ends better.
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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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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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