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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.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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Habit Myself Old Present Talk Wisdom
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
What does your heart tell you?
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Heart Talk Yourself
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Faith Greatness Live
Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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Laughter Live Man Sound Strange Voice
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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Alone Memories Old Pay Wife Wisdom
Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Absence Myself Travel
In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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Believe Darkness Endurance Myself
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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Break Himself Path Wisdom
I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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Desire Kindness Love Man Myself
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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Himself Myself Path See Walk
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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Feeling Myself
I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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Fantasy Myself
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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Book Mad Myself Opinion Reading Writing
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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Beautiful Beyond End Light Thinking
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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Fear Himself Man

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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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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