"The doom lies in yourself, not in your…" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"The doom lies in yourself, not in your name."
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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 Doom Quotes
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
— Margaret Atwood
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The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and…
— Eric Alterman
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
— Heraclitus
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Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond…
— Thomas Gray
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His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand.…
— William S. Burroughs
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This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came…
— Janet Morris
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Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for…
— Samuel Adams
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
— Samuel Johnson
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Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction…
— Zhuangzi
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What doesn't bend must break, when dooms are apportioned and destiny takes the lead. As it will now, and as…
— Janet Morris
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