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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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Personal Development

"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."
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Personal Development

"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."
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Personal Development

"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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Personal Development

"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
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Personal Development

"One believes others will do what he will do to himself."
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Personal Development

"We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then."
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Personal Development

"Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear."
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Personal Development

"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."
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Personal Development

"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."
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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

"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

"As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves."
Emotion
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