How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
J. R. R. TOLKIENLiving by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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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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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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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
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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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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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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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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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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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