The wide world is all about you you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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From the Gate of Kings the North Wind rides, and past the roaring fallsAnd clear and cold about the tower its loud horn calls.'What news from the North, O mighty wind, do you bring to me todayWhat news of Boromir the Bold For he is long away.''Beneath Amon Hen I heard his cry. There many foes he fought.His cloven shield, his broken sword, they to the water brought.His head so proud, his face so fair, his limbs they laid to restAnd Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, bore him upon its breast.''O Boromir The Tower of Gaurd shall ever northward gazeTo Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, until the end of days.'J.R.R. Tolkien
He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.
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...in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.
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It needs more to make a king than a piece of elvish glass, or a rabble such as this.
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The wise speak only of what they know, Grima son of Galmod. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till th
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He wondered what the mans name was and where he came from and if he was really evil at heart, or what lies or threats had lead him on the long march from his home and if he would not really have rather stayed there in peace
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