Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
J. R. R. TOLKIENYes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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The road goes ever on and on
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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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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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All’s well that ends better.
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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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