The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

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Courage is found in unlikely places.

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

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

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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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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

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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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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.

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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

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