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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThere 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 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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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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The wise speak only of what they know
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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
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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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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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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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