I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
J. R. R. TOLKIENNo Victory Without Suffering
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The wise speak only of what they know
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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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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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What does your heart tell you?
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Deserves it! I daresay he does. 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. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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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 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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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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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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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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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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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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The road goes ever on and on
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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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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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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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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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