A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
He who breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Human stories are practically always about one thing, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth.'
--J.R.R. Tolkien
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Little by little, one travels far.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Never laugh at live dragons.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Where there's life there's hope.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
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