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.
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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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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 was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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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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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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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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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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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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