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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.

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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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Beyond Memories World
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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Born Hope
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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Fun Path Remember Safety Wild World
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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Philosophy World Yourself
He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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Dream Himself Season See Strange Time Vision Wild
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Food Gold Happiness Value World
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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Adventure Difficult Myself
I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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Choice Myself
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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Gold Lost Travel
Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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Carry Fantasy Himself Romantic Yourself
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Fantasy Live
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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Beautiful Beyond End Light Thinking
How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Judgement Man Time
I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
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Fantasy Friendship Myself
All’s well that ends better.
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End One Liner
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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Alive End Friendship Himself Myself

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