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One Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- 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…
- The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to…
- Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There…
- One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of…
- I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a…
- Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to…
- There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I think.…
- 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…
- Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land…
- The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.
- The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men.…
- The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue....
- I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament...
- 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 must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of…
- My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. There is only…
- We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is…
- A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and…
- 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…
- '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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