All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TOLKIENHe that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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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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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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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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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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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