We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat and prefer 'speech' and 'discourse'; well-bred, brilliant, or polite noblemen (visions of snobbery columns in the Press, and fat men on the Riviera) and prefer the 'worthy, brave and courteous men' of long ago.

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The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.

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The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

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

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The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

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All that is gold does not glitter,

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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

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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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If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else.

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A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

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It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

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You aren't nearly through this adventure yet.

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Above all shadows rides the sun.

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No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.

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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

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Do not spoil the wonder with haste!

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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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