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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENSo comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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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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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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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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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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Short cuts make long delays.
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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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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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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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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 was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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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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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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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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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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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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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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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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I will not walk backward in life.
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