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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENEven the smallest person can change the course of the future
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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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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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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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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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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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No Victory Without Suffering
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