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Us Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
- The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely…
- No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
- My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts…
- We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so…
- If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
- All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
- Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.
- I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see…
- 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 road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may…
- Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. .…
- Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the…
- It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those…
- 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…
- Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned…
- 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…
- 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…
- Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places…
- 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.…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — 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
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle