"For you do not yet know the strengths……" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road."
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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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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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals…
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We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the…
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A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.
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We cannot foresee what the Lord has in mind for us. Our only course of action is to be prepared…
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Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of…
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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences…
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a…
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What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and…
— Anton Chekhov
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Spiritually, no action is more important than surrender. Surrender is the tenderest impulse of the heart, acting out of love…
— Deepak Chopra
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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily difference…
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Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.
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