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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENMay the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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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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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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Short cuts make long delays.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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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.
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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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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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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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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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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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