It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
J. R. R. TOLKIENWhat does your heart tell you?
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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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Never laugh at live dragons.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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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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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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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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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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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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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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