"Few there were who could change his courses……" — J.R.R. Tolkien

"Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force."

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien has 756 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight…
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a…
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or…
Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet…
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a…
The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love…
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be…
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and…
The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed…

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Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be… — Aristotle
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from… — Billie Joe Armstrong
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about… — Karen Armstrong
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. — Nancy Astor
There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in… — David Attenborough
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our… — David Attenborough
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space,… — David Attenborough
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also… — David Attenborough
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. — Dean Acheson
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius

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