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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENShort cuts make long delays.
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All’s well that ends better.
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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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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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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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Short cuts make long delays.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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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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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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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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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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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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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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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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