May the hair on your toes never fall out!
J. R. R. TOLKIENBut in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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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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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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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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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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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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The road goes ever on and on
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There 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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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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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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I will not walk backward in life.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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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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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run 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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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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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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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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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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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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