Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J. R. R. TOLKIENShort cuts make long delays.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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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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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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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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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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