Great Throughts Treasury

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Related Quotes

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.

Giving | Little | Nations | Size |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.

Day | Giving |

Italian Proverbs

You must grease the wheels if you would have the car run.

Absolute | Giving | God | Good | Nothing | Paradise | Talking | God |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Each day before the end of eve she sought her lover, nor would him leave, until the stars were dimmed, and day came glimmering eastward silver-grey. Then trembling-veiled she would appear, and dance before him, half in fear; there flitting just before his feet she gently chid with laughter sweet: 'Come! dance now, Beren, dance with me! For fain thy dancing I would see!

Absence | Business | Ideas | Innovation | Life | Life | Model | Universe | Will | World | Following | Business |