Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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What does your heart tell you?
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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The road goes ever on and on
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I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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All’s well that ends better.
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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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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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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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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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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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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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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.
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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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From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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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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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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