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"Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you."
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"When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there."
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"Go the extra mile to do the undone, but work within your limits, and in doing so also, don't be a coward to question things within your limit that are not all that right, and don't be too arrogant or proud or be filled with excessive knowledge to do things which might though be within your limit, yet out of limit, for you must live and leave nothing, but distinctive and lasting footprints!"
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"Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old."
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"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
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"The first rule when you are in a hole is to ask for a hand out!"
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"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
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"O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!"
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"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."
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"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
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"Never let your education interfere with your learning."
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"A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom."
Leadership

"Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world."
Art

"I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back."
Hope

"It is horrible being all alone."
Mental Health

"The stars are far brighterThan gems without measure,The moon is far whiterThan silver in treasure;The fire is more shiningOn hearth in the gloamingThan gold won by mining,So why go a-roaming?"
Nature

"I could not 'make' you--except by force, which would break your mind."
Power

"The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks."
Purpose

"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."
Life

"I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!" said Fili. "My tub was full of ut. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are cold and sick with hunger is maddening. I could eat anything in the wide world now for hours on end - but not an apple!"
Emotion

"Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it."
Desire
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