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J.R.R. Tolkien

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Daily quotes from the creator of Middle Earth!

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.


Oft hope is born, when all is forlorn.


He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.


One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters.


A traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend.


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


Trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely.


When the great fall, the less must lead.


It seems less evil to counsel another man to break troth than to do so oneself, especially if one sees a friend bound unwitting to his own harm.


Even if the Enemy be thrown down, we shall not live to see a new age. But this, I deem, is our duty. And better so to perish nonetheless—as we surely shall, if we sit here—and know as we die that no new age shall be.


The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.


A king will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.


Time does not tarry ever, but change and growth is not in all things and places alike.


It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.


Oft the unbidden guest proves the best company.


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


It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.


It is easier to shout "stop!" than to do it.


Men are better than gates, and no gate will endure against our Enemy if men desert it.


He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.


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