...for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. -J. R. R. Tolkien

 

...for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.


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There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

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Courage is found in unlikely places.

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