For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. TOLKIENDeserves 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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Not all those who wander are lost.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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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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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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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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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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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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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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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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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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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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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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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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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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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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