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Good Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.
- The War is not over (and the one that is, or the part of it, has been largely lost). But it is of course wrong…
- There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been…
- And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were…
- You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.
- There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military…
- The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work…
- It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story,…
- Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have…
- The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and…
- Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and…
- So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it…
- It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
- 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…
- There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.
- But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more…
- Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and…
- If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don’t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely,…
- 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…
- But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I…
- Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll…
- And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to…
- Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were…
- Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant." "Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How…
- please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.
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- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
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- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
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