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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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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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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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The wise speak only of what they know
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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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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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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