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J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien
You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
The wise speak only of what they know.
In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.
It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.