I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
J. R. R. TOLKIENAll that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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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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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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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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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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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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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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Deserves it! I daresay he does. 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. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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