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- But do you remember Gandalf’s words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring.…
- I would have things as they were in all the days of my life . . . and in the days of my longfathers before…
- There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they…
- 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:…
- If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this…
- Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at…
- Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask,…
- And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music…
- There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only…
- I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
- Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner.
- And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years,…
- This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.
- Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.
- For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.
- My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell…
- Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds…
- I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie…
- 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…
- And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?
- Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away, ere break of day, To seek our pale enchanted gold.…
- We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.
- He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the…
- Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart…
- The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle