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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.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Fake Heart Hide Talk
No Victory Without Suffering
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Suffering Victory
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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Morning Yourself
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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Habit Myself Old Present Talk Wisdom
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Greatness See Tree Wake Up
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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Art Enemy Goodness Sick
I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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Choice Myself
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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Change Future Person
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Fun Path Remember Safety Wild World
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Book Mad Myself Opinion Reading Writing
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Alive End Friendship Himself Myself
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Food Gold Happiness Value World
I will not walk backward in life.
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Inspirational Life Myself Walk
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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Adventure Difficult Myself
I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Himself Myself Path See Walk
False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Danger Fear Hope

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