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"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till."
"The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out."
"Short cuts make long delays."
"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them?"
"I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."
"Dead men are heavy."
"The well was at the place where the tree had been. He threw himself to the ground and began to sob like a child."
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"We come to it at last, the great battle of our time."
"I wish it need not have happened in my time,"
"It is not the strength of the body, but the strength of the spirit."
"Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised."
"Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate."
"Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars."
"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
"The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."
"We have nothing more to give you, dark lady. Yet we would have given you our lives if you had asked. Unequal are the gifts of our fathers. Are we not also children of Ilúvatar, or are we Orcs? What do you want?"
"It's the job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."
"The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began."
"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places."
"The world is full of darkness and shadows, but we must not lose hope."
"A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities."
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"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
"History began as a fairy tale and will end as a tragedy."
"The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."
"Little by little, one travels far."
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
"The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it."
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost."
"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory."
"I wish it need not have happened in my time."
"End? No, the journey doesn't end here."
"Not all tears are an evil."
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door."
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like."
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places."
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"Not all those who wander are lost, The road goes ever on and on."
"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
"Short cuts make delays, but inns make longer ones."
"May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out."
"The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards."
"Courage is found in unlikely places."
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."
"Home is behind, the world ahead."
"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."
"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
"I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo. 'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."
"The road goes ever on and on."
"Not all those who wander are lost."
"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."
"I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge."
"It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish."
"There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something."
"The tales of the Elder Days, at least in the form that they have reached me, are partly historical, and partly an archaic form of art."
"The world is full of dark and light. You can't have one without the other."
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
"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."
"The greatest adventure is what lies ahead."
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
"Home is now behind you, the world is ahead."
"I don't really seek fame, fortune, power, none of that. I don't think that I'm that interested in those things. "
"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit."
"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule."
"Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no."
"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass."
"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!"
"I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, I love trees and all natural things; I am horrified by rapid mechanical transport."
"If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth."
"I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are evil."
"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."
"It is wisdom to recognise necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. "
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