It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThen 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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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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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 is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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All’s well that ends better.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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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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Never laugh at live dragons.
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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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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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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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