False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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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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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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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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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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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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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What does your heart tell you?
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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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 do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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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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May the hair on your toes never fall 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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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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