"Many folk like to know beforehand what is……" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder." - Gandalf"
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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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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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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken…
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But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer…
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With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots,…
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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
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Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was…
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Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
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I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.
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