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Less Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
- The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician…
- One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often…
- 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…
- For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as…
- It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too…
- it was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts
- Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one…
- I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic…
- On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel. Very tall…
- The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if…
- Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days…
- I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.
- For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart…
More Less Quotes
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The less government we have the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Take Me Or Leave Me Accept Me Or Walk Away, Love Me Or Hate Me But Dont Make Me Feel Like Less… — Superman
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis