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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENAnd then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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All’s well that ends better.
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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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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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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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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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