The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
J. R. R. TOLKIENShort cuts make long delays.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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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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All’s well that ends better.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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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 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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There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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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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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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