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"All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: adventuring, death, screenplay
799 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,683 people liked it

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
— C.S. Lewis (The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader")

tags: first-sentence
171 people liked it

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god
569 people liked it

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
1,732 people liked it

"(The Christian) does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, god, religion
1,151 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,401 people liked it

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: family, friends, parties, social
1,005 people liked it

"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death and judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: compassion, justice, mercy
841 people liked it

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: faith
360 people liked it

"If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness
480 people liked it

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."

"I don't much care where –"

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

tags: adventure
213 people liked it

"if you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later. "
— Lewis Carroll

98 people liked it

"'When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.’"
— Lewis Carroll (Through The Looking Glass)

tags: language
42 people liked it

"Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass)

45 people liked it

"We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us."
— L.M. Montgomery

tags: mistakes
171 people liked it

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: happiness
2,797 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,523 people liked it

"...my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side..."
— Abraham Lincoln

198 people liked it

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: religion
161 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,266 people liked it

"Who wants to go down the creepy tunnel inside the tomb first?
— Riley Poole"
— Ann Lloyd (National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets: The Junior Novel)

tags: humor
82 people liked it

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

3,514 people liked it

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
— George Washington

tags: confession, excuses, honesty, lies, lying, truth
190 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,740 people liked it

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books"
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: books, learning, love, serenity
585 people liked it

"For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: acceptance, contentment, raining
67 people liked it

"Music is the universal language of mankind."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: music, poetry
127 people liked it

"Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord,
She shall be praised."
— Proverbs 31:30

tags: beauty, bible, purity, woman
61 people liked it

"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: age, books, reading
801 people liked it

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: children-s, entertainment, stories
923 people liked it

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: churchill, funny, true, winston
493 people liked it

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under."
— Ronald Reagan

tags: inspirational
171 people liked it

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
145 people liked it

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
— Aesop

tags: inspirational
78 people liked it

"If God sends you down a stony path, may he give you strong shoes."
— Old Irish Saying

tags: inspirational, irish
5 people liked it

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
— Aristotle

tags: habit, inspirational, knowledge
406 people liked it

"Lord, be my rock of safety, the stronghold that saves me. For the honor of your name lead me and guide me." "
— Psalm 30:3-4

tags: inspirational
9 people liked it

"When your will is God's will, you will have your will."
— Charles Spurgeon

tags: god, inspirational
22 people liked it

""Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established" (Psalms 16:3)."
— Holy Bible, KJV

tags: inspirational
10 people liked it

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
— Aristotle (Metaphysics)

tags: wisdom
898 people liked it

"There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."
— Ronald Reagan

51 people liked it

"Elementary, my dear Watson.
-Sherlock Holmes"
— Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: easy, elementary, holmes, sherlock, simple
33 people liked it

"Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him. - Sherlock Holmes."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Hound of the Baskervilles)

17 people liked it

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: inspirational
220 people liked it

"In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road."
— C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

8 people liked it

"You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
---Sherlock Holmes"
— Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: holmes, sherlock
21 people liked it

"...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world."
— Daphne du Maurier

3 people liked it

"He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter."
— Margery Williams Bianco (The Velveteen Rabbit)

tags: humility, love, modesty
7 people liked it

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, religion, sun
2,642 people liked it

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