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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J.R.R. Tolkien

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.

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Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim.(I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.)(Gilraen's linnod)

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

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Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

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Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).

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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.

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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.

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Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gateAnd though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when IShall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

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Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.

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There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.

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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

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There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo."So do I," said Gandalf, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

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