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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’

J. R. R. Tolkien

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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Mystery Philosophy Quite Yourself
What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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Fantasy Himself
The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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Goodness Hope Quite Worry
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Faith Greatness Live
End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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Death End Journey Path
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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Fun Path Remember Safety Wild World
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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Heart Understand Yourself
Where there’s life there’s hope.
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Hope Life
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Fake Heart Hide Talk
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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Enough War World
But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Darkness End Hope
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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Fear Patience Try Yourself
Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Hope Life Need
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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Change Heart Herself Sun Understand
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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Art Enemy Goodness Sick
Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Adventure Carry End Story

How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’

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