"Without the high and noble the simple and……" — J.R.R. Tolkien

"Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless"

— 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.
Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight…
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a…
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or…
Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet…
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a…
The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love…
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be…
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and…
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 Heroic Quotes

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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but… — Arthur Ashe
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. — Margaret Atwood
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. — Ansel Adams
Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also… — Evan Bayh
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. — John Barth
What is a society without a heroic dimension? — Jean Baudrillard
Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible… — Andrew Bernstein
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. — Joseph Campbell
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short… — Jane Campion
I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a… — Nick Cave
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound… — Noam Chomsky
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. — Noam Chomsky

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