Don’t go where I can’t follow!
J. R. R. TOLKIENLiving by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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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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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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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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Short cuts make long delays.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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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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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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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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I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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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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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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