I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
J. R. R. TOLKIENLiving by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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What does your heart tell you?
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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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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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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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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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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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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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 road goes ever on and on
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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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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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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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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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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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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