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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.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The wise speak only of what they know
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Knowledge Talk Wisdom
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Love Myself Philosophy Warrior Weapon
How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Judgement Man Time
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Deep Forget History Knowledge Lost
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Advice Danger Deep Gift Wisdom
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Book Mad Myself Opinion Reading Writing
Don’t go where I can’t follow!
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Absence Myself Travel
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Fairytale Safety True World
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Darkness Greatness Grief Growth Love Place World
The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Goodness Hope Quite Worry
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Gold Lost Travel
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Mystery Philosophy Quite Yourself
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Darkness Faith Himself Road
I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Alive End Friendship Himself Myself
Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Animal Death Voice Wings
End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Death End Journey Path

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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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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