A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
J. R. R. TOLKIENAll that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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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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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 come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
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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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Not all those who wander are lost.
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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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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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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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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