"Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of……" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities."
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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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the…
— William Whately
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If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you…
— Torii Mototada
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Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which…
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No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four…
— Tom O'Connor
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within…
— Joseph Addison
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The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger…
— Martin Luther
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
— Seneca the Younger
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While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined…
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