The wise speak only of what they know
J. R. R. TOLKIENMany 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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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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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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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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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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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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Not all those who wander are lost.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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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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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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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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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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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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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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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