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. TOLKIENIt is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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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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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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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 will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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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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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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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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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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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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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 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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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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