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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENBut in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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All’s well that ends better.
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The road goes ever on and on
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The wise speak only of what they know
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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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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
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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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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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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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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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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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