"On their deathbed men will speak true, they…" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."
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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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I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
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And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he…
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Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches
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There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no…
— Hannah More
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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)
— Oscar Wilde
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A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind.…
— Marlene Dietrich
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I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.
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Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent…
— Hal Borland
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Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little…
— Derek Sivers
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My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be…
— Jacques Delors
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Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting…
— Ann Druyan
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He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I…
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