The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
J. R. R. TOLKIENHis grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
More J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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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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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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The wise speak only of what they 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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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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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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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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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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Do 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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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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