Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
J. R. R. TOLKIENIn this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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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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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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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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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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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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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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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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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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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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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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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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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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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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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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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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