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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

J. R. R. Tolkien

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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End Fantasy Snow
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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Beyond Doubt End See
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
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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Greatness See Tree Wake Up
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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Death Deserve End Himself Judgement Life Live Wisdom
You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Fantasy Yourself
False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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Danger Fear Hope
May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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Fantasy Hairs
In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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Believe Darkness Endurance Myself
I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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Choice Myself
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Darkness Faith Himself Road
What does your heart tell you?
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Heart Talk Yourself
May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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Darkness Light Yourself
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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Darkness Greatness Grief Growth Love Place World
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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Feeling Myself
Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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Adventure Carry End Story

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

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