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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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What does your heart tell you?
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He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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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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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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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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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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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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