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“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Somebody has to go polish the stars,
They're looking a little bit dull.
Somebody has to go polish the stars,
For the eagles and starlings and gulls
Have all been complaining they're tarnished and worn,
They say they want new ones we cannot afford.
So please get your rags
And your polishing jars,
Somebody has to go polish the stars.”
― Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic

“Yet dawn is ever the hope of men,’ said Aragorn.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Be bold, but wary! Keep up your merry hearts, and ride to meet your fortune!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Elves and Dragons! I says to him. Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“I’ll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Well, I am going back into the open air, to see what the wind and sky are doing!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“If that's being queer, then we could do with a bit more queerness in these parts.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings Slipcase

“...as young and as ancient as Spring....”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. The great owners ignored the three cries of history. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of the dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression. The money was spent for arms, for gas to protect the great holdings, and spies were sent to catch the murmuring of revolt so that it might be stamped out. The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“I take a pleasure in inquiring into things. I’ve never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far side of the moon.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“…this was the gold from our mining: 'Thou mayest.' The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin (and you can call sin ignorance). The King James translation makes a promise in 'Thou shalt,' meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word timshel—'Thou mayest'—that gives a choice. For if 'Thou mayest'—it is also true that 'Thou mayest not.' That makes a man great and that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win.”
― Jo A. Lee