"My own dear mother was a martyr indeed,……" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith."
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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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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 only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed…
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
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