Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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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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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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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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I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
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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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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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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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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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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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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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