"For still there are so many things that……" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green."
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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
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Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight…
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He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a…
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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or…
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Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet…
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a…
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The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
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Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love…
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One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be…
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Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and…
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The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed…
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More Every Spring Quotes
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one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every…
— Unknown Author
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I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas.
— Myrna Loy
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
— Ezra Pound
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When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no…
— Barbara Tuchman
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I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed…
— May Sarton
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Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on…
— Annie Dillard
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Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
— Ellis Peters
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April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be…
— Max Lucado
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We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed.…
— Daniel Abraham
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The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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