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Light Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
- She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else…
- And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared…
- 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…
- 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…
- We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true…
- The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light…
- Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those…
- For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were…
- 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…
- There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty…
- May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
- Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole.
- Burn, burn tree and fern! Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch To light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Bake and toast ‘em, fry…
- He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.
- He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think.…
- Suddenly Faramir stirred, and he opened his eyes, and he looked on Aragorn who bent over him; and a light of knowledge and love was…
- There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark:…
- I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that…
- But Sam turned to Bywater, and so came back up the Hill, as day was ending once more. And he went on, and there was…
More Light Quotes
- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt