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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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Art Enemy Goodness Sick
I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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Growth Healing Love Myself
Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Hope Life Need
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Moon Sun Walk Wings Yourself
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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Deep Forget History Knowledge Lost
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
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Evil Myself Tears
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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Darkness Greatness Grief Growth Love Place World
The wise speak only of what they know
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Knowledge Talk Wisdom
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.
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Death Deserve Judgement Life Live
Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Courage Place
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Anger Fantasy Quick
The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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Goodness Hope Quite Worry
Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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Laughter Live Man Sound Strange Voice
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Mystery Philosophy Quite Yourself
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Fear Himself Man

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

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