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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENHow do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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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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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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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 am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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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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From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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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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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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