He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
J. R. R. TOLKIENIf more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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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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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go 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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All’s well that ends better.
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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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There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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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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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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