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. 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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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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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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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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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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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I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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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.
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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