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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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Beautiful Beyond End Light Thinking
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Fantasy Live
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Friendship Man Trust
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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Heart Understand Yourself
Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Hope Life Need
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Fake Heart Hide Talk
But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Darkness End Hope
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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Children Food Goodness Kindness Value World
Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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Animal Death Voice Wings
Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Absence Myself Travel
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Job Philosophy Start
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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Gold Lost Old Philosophy Strong
What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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Fantasy Himself
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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Mystery Philosophy Quite Yourself
I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.
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Alive End Friendship Himself Myself
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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Gold Lost Travel

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