Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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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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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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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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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?
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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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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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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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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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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What does your heart tell you?
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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