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. 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 shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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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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Short cuts make long delays.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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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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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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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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