All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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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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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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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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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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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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What does your heart tell you?
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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