"He told them tales of bees and flowers,……" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"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 good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles."
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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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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 Bees Quotes
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Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on…
— Mary Kay Ash
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That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
— Marcus Aurelius
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a…
— Brigitte Bardot
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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The…
— Charles A. Beard
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
— Muhammad Ali
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You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a…
— Jean Cocteau
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The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has…
— Emily Dickinson
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According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring…
— Andre Sainte-Lague
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
— Charles Darwin
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