Never laugh at live dragons.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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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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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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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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Short cuts make long delays.
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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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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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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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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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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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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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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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