I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
J. R. R. TOLKIENYou can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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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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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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 will not walk backward in life.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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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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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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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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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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