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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.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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Greatness See Tree Wake Up
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Job Philosophy Start
I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
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Himself Myself Path See Walk
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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Feeling Myself
The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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Death Horror Spiritual Time
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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Habit Myself Old Present Talk Wisdom
Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Absence Myself Travel
I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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Myself Revenge
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Fairytale Safety True World
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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Dragon Himself Leave Live Myself
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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Beyond Memories World
Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Hope Life Need
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Evil Myself Tears
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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Darkness Greatness Grief Growth Love Place World
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Children Food Goodness Kindness Value World
Where there’s life there’s hope.
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Hope Life

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.

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