It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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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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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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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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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.
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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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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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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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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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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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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