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  • #1
    Jane Austen
    “I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”
    Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • #2
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #3
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #4
    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, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #5
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #9
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Deserves it! I daresay he does. 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 judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #10
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe

  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #12
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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?”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Courage is found in unlikely places.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #15
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #18
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #19
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Where there's life there's hope.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #20
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Short cuts make long delays.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #21
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #23
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #24
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #25
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

  • #26
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #27
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

  • #28
    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, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “False hopes are more dangerous than fears.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

  • #30
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The wise speak only of what they know”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers



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