Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIENShort cuts make long delays.
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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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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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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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Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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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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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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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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He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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