It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThe 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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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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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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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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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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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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From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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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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