And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter.
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Cold be hand and heart and bone,and cold be sleep under stonenever more to wake on stony bed,never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead.In the black wind the stars shall die,and still on gold here let them lie,till the dark lord lifts his handover dead sea and withered land.
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till the lightning falls.
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Grey as a mouse,Big as a house,Nose like a snake,I make the earth shake,As I tramp through the grassTrees crack as I pass.With horns in my mouthI walk in the South,Flapping big ears.Beyond count of yearsI stump round and round,Never lie on the ground,Not even to die.Oliphaunt am I,Biggest of all,Huge, old, and tall.If ever youd met meYou wouldnt forget me.If you never do,You wont think Im trueBut Oliphaunt am I,And I never lie.
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It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.
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