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.
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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The wise speak only of what they know
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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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It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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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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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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What does your heart tell you?
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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Yes, 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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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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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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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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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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