The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
J. R. R. TOLKIENDo 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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Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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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.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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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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No Victory Without Suffering
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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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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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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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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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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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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