Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
J. R. R. TOLKIENBut in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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The road goes ever on and on
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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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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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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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The wise speak only of what they know
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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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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