False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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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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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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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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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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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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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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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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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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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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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