Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
J. R. R. TOLKIENYour 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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Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
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From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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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.
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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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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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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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