The road goes ever on and on
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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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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What does your heart tell you?
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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