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All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
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All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise.
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It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
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I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you.
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What do you mean? 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 on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works...
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Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.
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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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It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
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He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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It's wisdom to recognize 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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Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.
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There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.
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The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...
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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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Little by little, one travels far.
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...for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
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