"The wolf that one hears is worse than……" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears."
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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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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 Fears Quotes
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
— Aristotle
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those…
— Adam Arkin
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters…
— J. J. Abrams
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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual…
— Margaret Atwood
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
— Francis Bacon
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
— Francis Bacon
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
— Abu Bakr
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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour…
— Honore de Balzac
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
— A. C. Benson
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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man…
— Aeschylus
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